MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH228 : Nepeta hindostana (Roth) Haines |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 423 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Chikhaldara plateaux | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | UNCOMMON | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Labiatae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | North Indian Catmint, Billilotan, arq badranj boya, badran boya, Cal Mint, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Glechoma hindostana Roth. Nepeta calaminthoides Benth. Nepeta ruderalis Buch.-Ham. ex Benth. |
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| Description : | Annual or short-lived perennial. Stems erect or ascending rather slender, 30-50 cm, with a rather dense eglandular retrorse or spreading indumentum. Leaves broad ovate or triangular-ovate up to c. 25 x 25 mm, truncate cuneate or subcordate, crenate-dentate, all petiolate; petiole on lowermost leaves to 20 mm. Inflorescence lax, of many clearly pedunculate cymes, at least below, or verticillasters, lowermost arising from leaf roils, mostly distant. Pedicels up to 3 mm. Bracts linear-subulate, c. as long as calyces, ciliate. Calyx 3.5-4 mm, often purplish, with spreading villous hairs, narrow tubular; throat oblique; teeth c. 1/3-1/4 length of tube, subulate. Corolla lilac to purplish, c. 8 mm. Nutlets c. 1 x 0.6 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, palish brown, depressed-tuberculate, with a bilobed basal areole, mucilaginous on wetting. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The plant is known for uses such as cardiac, brain, and gastric tonic. It is a blood purifier and relieves high blood pressure. It has anti-asthmatic, anti-catarrhal, and sedative properties. It is used to treat fever, body ache, diarrheoa, dysentery, as a carminative and antispasmodic agent, as a gargle for sore throat and bad breath, also to treat gonorrhea. The plant also has hypocholesterolaemic and central nervous system (CNS) depressant effects. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | nepehinal nepeticin nepehinol triterpenic acid |
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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 ~ Sushma Devi and Randhir Singh; "Assessment of lipid lowering effect of Nepeta hindostana herb extract in experimentally induced dyslipidemia"; Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism (2017); 9: 17-23 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 : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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