MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH216 : Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 406 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Verbenaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Capeweed, Frog Fruit, Turkey tangle, Creeping Lip Plant, Lippia, Jal buti, Jalpapli, Chinglengbi, Jalapimpali, Podutalei, Nirtippali, Bokkena, Nelahippali, Adali, Kurkure jhar | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Blairia nodiflora (L.) Gaertn. Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx. Lippia nodiflora var. normalis Kuntze, nom. inval. Platonia nodiflora (L.) Raf. Verbena nodiflora L. Zappania nodiflora (L.) Lam. |
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| Description : | Prostrate herbs, rooting at nodes. Leaves 1-3 x 0.8-1.5 cm, obovate-spathulate or oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic or cuneiform, base cuneate, margin sharply serrate above the middle, apex rounded or obtuse, fleshy, glabrescent to appressed pubescent; petiole to 8 mm long, decurrent. Flowers 5-merous, sessile, aggregated in axillary, globose-capitate or elongate, cylindric, stalked spikes, 1-2.5 cm long when mature and 6-9 mm across; peduncle solitary in eachaxil, 1.5-6 cm long. Bracts small, closely imbricate, obovate. Calyx cupular, aboutequalling the corolla tube, deeply 2-cleft; lobes lanceolate. Corolla pink to white, 2-2.5 mm long, salver-form, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, emarginate, lower 3-lobed. Stamens 4, included. Drupe c. 2 mm long, enclosing two, 1-celled pyrenes. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The plant is anodyne, anti-bacterial, astringent, carminative, deobstruent, diuretic, emmenagogue, emollient, febrifuge, parasiticide and refrigerant. It is said to be useful in the treatment of blenorrhoea, lithiasis, ischuria, constipation and pain in the knees. It is used in the treatment of hookworm. An infusion is drunk as a post-partum tonic. The juice of the plant is cooling and is used to relieve minor gastric troubles, fevers, coughs and colds. The aroma of the inhaled plant is breathed in to treat coughs and colds. A poultice of the fresh plant is applied to ripen boils. A paste or poultice is also applied to swollen cervical glands, to erysipelas, burns, and to chronic indolent ulcers. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Nodifloretin Beta-sitosterol Stigmasterol Nodifloridin A Nodifloridin B Lippiflorin A Lippiflorin B Nepetin Batalilfolin 6-hydroxyluteolin-7-Oapioside Luteolin-7-O-glucoside 6-hydroxyluteolin Batatifolin acteoside demethoxycentaureidin Hispidulin 7-sulfate Hispidulin 7,4-disulfate Jaceosidin 7,4-disulfate Nepetin 3,4-disulfate Nodifloretin 6,7-disulfate 6-Hydroxyluteolin 6,7-disulfate Nodifloretin 7-sulfate 6-Hydroxyluteolin 6-sulfate 6-Hydroxyluteolin 7-sulfate Jaceosidin 7-sulfate Nepetin 7-sulfate Hispidulin 4-sulfate Hispidulin Jaceosidin Halleridone Hallerone Lippiacin Nodifloretin-A |
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| Reference : | ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID : ~ 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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