MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH253 : Acalypha indica L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 453 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Euphorbiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Indian Nettle, Indian Acalypha, Indian Mercury, Indian Copperleaf, Three-seeded Mercury | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Acalypha bailloniana Müll.Arg. Acalypha canescens Benth., nom. nud. Acalypha caroliniana Blanco, nom. illeg. Acalypha chinensis Benth. Acalypha cupamenii Dragend. Acalypha decidua Forssk. Acalypha fimbriata Baill. Acalypha indica var. bailloniana (Müll.Arg.) Hutch. Acalypha indica var. minima (H.Keng) S.F.Huang & T.C.Huang Acalypha minima H.Keng Acalypha somalensis Pax Acalypha somalium Müll.Arg. Acalypha spicata Forssk. Cupamenis indica (L.) Raf. Ricinocarpus baillonianus (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze Ricinocarpus deciduus (Forssk.) Kuntze Ricinocarpus indicus (L.) Kuntze |
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| Description : | Annual herbs, to 60 cm tall; stem striate, pubescent. Leaves 1.2-6.5 x 1-3.8 cm, broadly ovate, base rounded to shortly attenuate, margin crenate-serrate, apex acute or obtuse, basally 5-nerved; petiole 1.5-5.5 cm long. Spikes axillary, 2.5-6.2 cm long, monoecious, rachis ending in a triradiate hood at the tip. Male flowers above, ebracteate, minute, clustered; anthers vermiculiform. Female flowers below subtended by foliaceous, 3-7 mm long, suborbicular-cuneiform, many-nerved, toothed bracts; ovary hispid, 3-lobed; styles 3, each 2-fid. Capsules 3-valved, concealed by bract, hispid. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Leaves: emetic, ophthalmic, purgative and vermifuge, asthma, pneumonia, malarial fever, dysentery, diabetes | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Phytol dihydroactinidiolide loliolide docosanol 1-triacontanol |
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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 ~ Zahidin NS, Saidin S, Zulkifli RM, Muhamad II, Ya'akob H, Nur H; "A review of Acalypha indica L. (Euphorbiaceae) as traditional medicinal plant and its therapeutic potential"; J Ethnopharmacol. (2017); 207: 146-173 PMID : 28647509 ~ 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 : ~ Seebaluck R, Gurib-Fakim A and Mahomoodally F; "Medicinal plants the genus Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) - A review of their ethnopharmacology and phytochemistry"; J Ethnopharmacol (2015); 159: 137-57 PMID : 25446604 ~ 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 ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Omolola Temitope Fatokun, Tosin Ejiro Wojuola, Kevwe Benefit Esievo and Oluyemisi Folashade Kunle; "Medicinal plants used in the management of Asthma: A review"; EJPMR (2016); 3(7): 82-92 PMID : ~ 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 : ~ Vijayabhaskar K, Venkateshwarlu G, Bhaskar J, Sravanprasad M, Sathis Kumar D, Suresh Kumar P and Somsubhara Ghosh; "Evaluation of effect of Acalypha indica Linn. leaves extract on bronchodilation and bronchial hyperreactivity in experimental animals"; Journal of Pharmacy Research (2011); 4(7): 2250-2253 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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