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Medicinal Powder - Artifacts

Description
Glass mason jar with metal and porcelain lid containing rhubarb powder. Glass jar is rounded at shoulders and has raised printing on one side "DREY PERFECT MASON". The lid is a metal screw on top with a white porcelain liner with raised lettering "Boyd's Genuine Porcelain Lined Cap -11" On one side of the jar is a dirty white paper label with three Chinese characters written in black ink - Da huang Radix et Rhizome Rhei. The dried root and rhizome of Palmate Rhubarb, Rheum palmatum l., Tangut Rhubarb, Rheum tanguticum Maxim. ex Balf. or Medicinal Rhubarb, Rheum officinale Baill. (family Polygonaceae). As an purgative and detoxicant and to eliminate evil heat, stagnated food and blood stasis for the treatment of fever with constipation and fullness in the abdomen, acute jaundice, acute appendicitis, incomplete intertinal obstruction, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, hematemesis and epistaxis associated with excessive heat in the blood; used externally for burns, suppurative skin diseases, carbuncles and furuncles.
Object ID
1997.055.157