MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH161 : Evolvulus alsinoides (L.) L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 323 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Convolvulaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Shankhpushpi, Dwarf Morning Glory, Slender Dwarf Morning Glory, Visnukrantha, Shyamakrantha • Marathi: Vishnukranta • Tamil: Vishnukranthi • Malayalam: Vishnukranthi • Telugu: Vishnukrantha • Kannada: Vishnykranti • Sanskrit: Vishnugandhi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Breweria alsinoides (L.) Merr. Convolvulus alsinoides L. Convolvulus fugacissimus Hochst. ex Choisy Convolvulus linifolius L. Evolvulus angustifolius Roxb. Evolvulus argenteus R. Br. Evolvulus capreolatus Mart. ex Choisy Evolvulus chinensis Choisy Evolvulus diffusus Chapm. Evolvulus filiformis Willd. ex Steud. Evolvulus fugacissimus Hochst. Evolvulus heterophyllus Labill. Evolvulus hirsutulus Herb. Brit. Mus. ex Choisy Evolvulus lanceifolius Span. Evolvulus linifolius Gardn. Evolvulus microphyllus Mart. & Gal. Evolvulus modestus Hance Evolvulus pilosissimus Mart. & Gal. Evolvulus pudicus Hance ex Walpers Evolvulus ramiflorus Boj. ex Choisy Evolvulus reniformis Salzm. ex Choisy Evolvulus sericeus Wall. Evolvulus villosus R. Br. Evolvulus yemensis Defl. |
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| Description : | Herbs. Stems herbaceous or suffrutescent, reclining or ascending, pubescent. Leaves oblong, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, 1-2.5 cm long, subsessile, acute to obtuse basally and apically, pubescent. Flowers on peduncles, mostly equaling the leaves. Sepals lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 2-3 mm long, pubescent. Corolla mostly blue, sometimes white, 3-7 mm broad. Fruit capsular, globose, glabrous. Seeds black, smooth. Fl. Per.: Feb.-Oct. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Psychotropic, Nootropic; Alopecia; Asthma; Bronchitis; Fever; Fumitory; Gonorrhea; Hair-Growth; Tonic; Vermifuge; alterative; anthelminthic; Dysentery; antiDiarrheal; debility; loss of memory; anti-ulcer; | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Scopoletin Umbelliferone Scopolin Oleic acid Kaempferol |
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| Reference : | ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697 ~ Duraisamy Gomathi, Ganesan Ravikumar, Manokaran Kalaiselvi, Kanakasabapathi Devaki, Chandrasekar Uma; "Effect of Evolvulus alsinoides on lipid metabolism of streptozotocin induced diabetic rats"; Asian Pac J Trop Dis (2013); 3(3): 184-188 PMID : ~ Pavithra Sundaramurthi & Kannan Kilavan Packiam; "A review on pharmacognosy and pharmacology of Evolvulus alsinoides (L.) L."; Int. Res. J. Pharm (2017); 8 (7): 1-4 PMID : ~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151 ~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320 ~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID : ~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 PMID : ~ 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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