English: Bridelia
Hindi: Kangiabe
Sanskrit: Chikni, ghonta
Malayalam: Cherupanichi-ചെറുപനച്ചി.
It is large climbing, evergreen shrub and is distributed in Western Ghats, South Canara, and Mysore to Travancore, more or less scandent; branches straight or flexuous, usually tomentose; leaves alternate, petioles stout, tomentose, lamina elliptic, undulate or repand, glabrous or pendulous or puberulous above or subcoriaceous; flowers monoecious, green, often in long panicled spikes, often subtended by long stipular bracts, male flowers sessile, female flowers pedicelled; fruits bluish black, smooth.
Leaf Arrangement
Shape-Ovate | Margin-Entire | Venation-pinnate |
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Useful plant parts:
Aerial parts, seed
Medicinal uses:
Pleurisy, asthma, cough, fever, as a gargle for sores in the mouth, jaundice, and anaemia due to pregnancy.
Decoction of bark can cure children’s cough, asthma, and fever.
Gargling of decoction is useful in curing sores in moths.
leaves are useful to treat jaundice.
The roots of the plant is useful to reducing inflammation.
Chemical content:
Root: Taraxerone, Bark: beta-sitosterol, friedelin
Medicinal properties:
Hypotensive.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378874109003109
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