MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH082 : Cucumis melo L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 208 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In fields stream beds,among grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Cucurbitaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Sherni, Seinat, Kharmuj, Musk Melon, Sweet Melon, Melon, Sinar, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | - |
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| Description : | Annual or sometimes perennial (in wild form), trailing, prostrate or rarely climbing herb. Stem angular and hirsute, sometimes becoming circular and glabrous. Leaves ± reniform, 5-angled or shallowly 5-lobed, lobes obtuse, both surfaces covered with soft villous hairs; size variable, 5-15 cm long and as much broad, smaller in wild forms. Male flowers fasciculate; peduncle 5-3 cm long. Calyx tube villous, 5-8 mm long, sepals subulate. Corolla 1-2 cm long. Fruits variable in size, shape, texture and colour, generally glabrous. Seeds white, oblong and emarginate. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | diuretic, chronic or acute eczema, fruit is cooling, fattening, tonic, laxative, aphrodisiac and diuretic; cures biliousness, insanity, ascites and allays fatigue. The seeds are lachrymatory, diuretic, cooling, tonic and nutritive; used in ophthalmia, liver and kidney troubles, bronchitis, burning of the throat, chronic fever, painful discharges and supression of urine. They are also beneficial to the enlargement of prostate gland. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Fruit: Cucurbitacin B Cucurbitacin E Cucurbitin ferulic acid catteic acid chlorogenic acid Beta-sitosterol |
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| Reference : | ~ Boeing H, Bechthold A, Bub A, Ellinger S, Haller D, Kroke A, Leschik-Bonnet E, Muller MJ, Oberritter H, Schulze M, Stehle P and Watzl B; "Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases"; Eur J Nutr (2012); 51(6): 637-63 PMID : 22684631 ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
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