Pharmacographia Indica. a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin ...
Pharmacographia Indica. a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin ...
William Dymock
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Fig.— Reich. Ic. FL Germ. xix. it. 1404-1406; Woodville, i. 16; Bentl. and Trim. i. 159. Dandelion {Eng.), Pissenlit (Fr.) Hab. — Throughout the Himalaya and the Niigirls. Cul- tivated in N.-W. Provinces. The root. Vernacular, — Dudhal, Baran, Kanphul (Hind.), History, Uses, &C. — The derivation of the medieBval name Taraxacum is uncertain, but it seems not improbable ^hat it was a corruption of the Persian ^.tj o ^ r^^ Ja (Tarkhash- kdn), the name of a kind of wild endive mentioned by Ibn Digi...tized by VjOOQ IC 316 COMPOSITE. Sina, which he describes as useful in dropsy and obstructions of the liver. The same plant is noticed by other Arabian and Persian writers, all oif whom describe it as the wild endive, and some of whom add that it has bluish flowers. The Greeks and Uomans speak of several varieties of endive, but there is nothing in their descriptions to lead us to suppose that they were acquainted with our Taraxacum. Fuohsius (1542) figured T. offioiymle (Tc. 391. », and named it Hedypnois, a namo given by Pliuy (20, 31) to one of his kinds of wild eudive.
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