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Podophyllum emodi
(CHAPTER VII. Flavonol Group.)

The Natural Organic Colouring Matters
By
Arthur George Perkin, F.R.S., F.R.S.E., F.I.C., professor of colour chemistry and dyeing in the University of Leeds
and
Arthur Ernest Everest, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.I.C., of the Wilton Research Laboratories; Late head of the Department of Coal-tar Colour Chemistry; Technical College, Huddersfield
Longmans, Green and Co.
39 Paternoster Row, London
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Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras
1918

Kaikki kuvat (kemialliset kaavat) puuttuvat // None of the illustrations (of chemical formulas) included.

P. emodi is a small herbaceous plant growing abundantly in Northern India. The root, or rather the rhizome, is employed medicinally in India as a powerful purgative, just, indeed, as the allied P. peltatum is used in Europe and America.

An examination of this root by Dunstan and Henry (Chem. Soc. Trans., 1898, 73, 209) has shown that in addition to podophyllotoxin, the active constituent, a considerable quantity of quercetin is present. According to Hummel this material in dyeing property compares favourably with quercitron bark, and should prove commercially valuable as a dyestuff at least to the native dyer.

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