Family : Euphorbiaceae
Description
It is an erect, fleshy, glabrous and polymorphous shrubs or small tree with 1 to 5 m height and terete or obscurely 3 to 6 angled branches and sinuate winged branchlets. Leaves are small, fleshy, deciduous and obovate-oblong with rounded apex and cuneate and entire base. Involucres are 3-nate, in short-peduncled simple or less often compounded cymes. Styles are free and 2 lobed with 5 large glands. The cocci are glabrous and compressed.
Habitat
Warmer areas of India.
Parts Used : Stem, root, latex, plant and its aerial part.
Herb Effects
Stimulates the cardiovascular system (aerial part), emetic, irritant, purgative, stomachic.
Active Ingredients
Taraxerol (root); cycloartenol, beta-amyrin, euphol and alpha-euphorbol (latex); taraxerone, friedelan-3-alpha-ol and -3-beta-ol (stem).
Medicinal Use
Syphilis, bronchitis, asthma, anasarca, dropsy and whitlow (plant); used as external application in cutaneous affections, rheumatism, toothache and ulcers. Its stem-decoction is beneficial in gout and nervous diseases.
Dosage
Acute gastroenteritis: use 3 to 6 gms dried materials in decoction.
Reference
Habitat
Warmer areas of India.
Parts Used : Stem, root, latex, plant and its aerial part.
Herb Effects
Stimulates the cardiovascular system (aerial part), emetic, irritant, purgative, stomachic.
Active Ingredients
Taraxerol (root); cycloartenol, beta-amyrin, euphol and alpha-euphorbol (latex); taraxerone, friedelan-3-alpha-ol and -3-beta-ol (stem).
Medicinal Use
Syphilis, bronchitis, asthma, anasarca, dropsy and whitlow (plant); used as external application in cutaneous affections, rheumatism, toothache and ulcers. Its stem-decoction is beneficial in gout and nervous diseases.
Dosage
Acute gastroenteritis: use 3 to 6 gms dried materials in decoction.
Reference
No comments:
Post a Comment