MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH132 : Sonchus oleraceus L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 273 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In forest nurseries, fields etc. | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | UNCOMMON | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Milk weed, sowthistle, Sow thistle, Smooth Sow Thistle, Annual Sow Thistle, Hare's Colwort, Hare's Thistle, Milky Tassel, Swinies, Hare's-lettuce, Milk thistle, Dudhi, Khomthokpi; | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Sonchus australis Hort. ex Trev. Sonchus oleraceus Wall. Sonchus oleraceus f. asper (L.) Sonchus oleraceus f. runcinatus Fiori Sonchus oleraceus subsp. asper(L.)Ehrh. Sonchus oleraceus var. asper L. Sonchus oleraceus var. laevis L. |
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| Description : | Annuals, to 90 cm high; stems glandular hairy. Leaves to 15 x 6 cm, runcinate-pinnatifid, with a wide hastate terminal lobe, auricled and amplexicaule at base; lobes spinulose-serrate. Heads 15 x 8 mm, few, in panicled cymes; bracts 10 x 1.5 mm, 3-seriate, oblong, obtuse. Female corolla 12 mm long, limb yellow, 5-lobed; lobes obtuse. Achenes 3 x 1 mm, narrowed to the base, truncate at apex, muriculate; pappus 10 mm long, white, cottony. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | It is used medicinally to treat Diarrhea, menstrual problems, fever, inflammation and warts. As abortifacient as a cathartic, a sedative, cancer treatment, a vermisides aid for toothache. Plant is useful in liver diseases. Leaves and roots are used in indegestion as febrifuge; stem is used as sedative, tonic; root extract is used in ointments for ulcers and wounds. Gum produced by evaporating latex is used for ascites and hydrothorax. enteritis, Diarrhea, pneumonia, hepatitis, appendicitis, chronic bronchopneumonia, icterus, throat swelling, haematemesis and uraemia | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | apigenin daidzein kaempferol luteolin myricetin quercetin daidzin genistin hesperidin hyperoside kaempferol-7-O-glucoside naringin rutin Apigetrin Astragalin Isoquercitrin |
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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 : |
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