Sanskrit: Vasuka, Thilapushpi
Malayalam: Tharthaval താർതാവൽ Nathachoori നത്തച്ചൂരി, Kudalchurukki – കുടല്ച്ചുരുക്കി
False Button weed (Spermococe Hispida) is herbs, erect, grows to 30cm to 50 cm long, commonly in the wasteland, plane areas, and roadsides, leaves are simple, oblong, elliptic, acute at the end, size 1 to 2cm long and 0.8 to 1.5 cm broad. The stem is dark bluish, hispid. Flowers are small, white, and clustered in leaf axils, flowering and fruiting from May to August.
Leaf Arrangement
Shape-Oblong | Margin-Entire | Venation-Arcuated |
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Useful plant parts:
Whole plant
Medicinal uses:
Weakness, Stomach pain, indigestion, colitis.
How to prepare medicines:
One of the ingredients in MurivennaThailam
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