MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH028 : Tribulus terrestris L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 65 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Mostly near villages | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Zygophyllaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Gokshur or Gokharu or puncture vine | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Tribulus bicornutus Fisch. & C.A. Mey. Tribulus bimucronatus Kralik Tribulus bispinulosus Kralik Tribulus intermedius Kralik Tribulus orientalis Kerner Tribulus robustus Boiss. & Noe Tribulus saharae A. Chev. Tribulus terrestris var. bicornutus (Fisch. & C.A. Mey). Hadidi Tribulus terrestris var. inermis Boiss. Tribulus terrestris var. robustus (Boiss. & Noe) Boiss. |
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| Description : | Annual or biennial, prostrate, densely appressed whitish silky pubescent herb. Stem hirsute to sericeous, branches spreading. Leaves paripinnate, 2.5-5 cm long; stipules lanceolate to falcate, 3-5 mm long; leaflets (4-) 5-6(-8) pairs ovate to elliptic-oblong, 5-10(-12) mm long, 3-8 mm broad, inequilateral, acute. Flowers yellow, 1-1.5 cm across; pedical up to 1.5(-2) cm long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, c. 3 mm broad, acute. Petals obovate, 6-8 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, obtuse. Stamens 10, filaments c. 3-5 mm long, anthers versatile. Ovary ovoid, hirsute; style c. 1.5 mm long, stigmas decurrent. Fruit up to c. 1 cm in diameter, 4-8 mm long, mericarps densely crested and tuberculate on dorsal side, densely hairy to glabrescent, with 2 long patent and 2 short downwardly directed spines (rarely all or lower 2 reduced to tubercles). Fl.Per.: Almost throughout the year. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | diuretic, aphrodisiac, antiurolithic, immunomodulatory, anti-diabetic, absorption enhancing, hypolipidemic, cardiotonic, central nervous system, Hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antispasmodic, anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, anthelmintic, larvicidal, and anticariogenic activities; It is used to remove the kidney stone and urine problem; | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | glucopyranosyl galactopyrans ruscogenin hecogenin sitosterol campesterol kaempferol Kaempferol glycosides Quercetin Astragalin Chlorogenin Cistocardin Cracillin D-(+)-Pinitol Harman Polysaccharide H Ruscogenin Saponoside-C 5-(Hydroxysulphonyloxy) Jasmonic Acid Beta-sitosterol Gitogenin Kaempferol-3-Beta-D-(6P-Coumaroyl)-Glucoside Kaempferol-3-Glucoside Kaempferol-3-Rutinoside Neogitogenin Quercetin Stigmasterol Duacosterol Desoxydiosgenin Diosgenin Diosgin Hecogenin Protodioscin Rutin Terrestrosides Tribulosin |
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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 : ~ Abeynayake Pemadasa, Jansz Manori, Rajoria Kshpira and Singh Sarvesh Kumar; "Role of Rajayapana basti with reference to Duchenne muscular Dystrophy: A review"; Int. J. Res. Ayurveda Pharm. (2016); 7(4): 7-10 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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