page_title: Astragalus sarcocolla
section_title: Plant
hierarchical_section_title: Astragalus sarcocolla / Plant
caption_attribution_description: Fars Province, Unnamed Road, Iran
context_page_description: Astragalus sarcocolla is a historical shrub or tree from Persia, identified with a species of Astragalus, also denoting its balsam.
context_section_description: Formerly, the genus Penaea, belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, was generally considered to be the original plant, namely either Penaea mucronata L., or Penaea sarcocolla L. or Penaea squamosa L. But in 1879 W. Dymock was able to prove that at least the Persian Sarcocolla is the product of what he called Astragalus sarcocolla Dym. (Leguminosae). Widely known in antiquity, the drug has practically disappeared from the European store of medicines, but, according to Meyerhof, it is still well known in the Orient, especially in the drugmarket in Cairo.
caption: Flower of sarcocolla
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