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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH377 : Andrographis paniculata (Burm. f.) Wall. ex Nees

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 43  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family
Genus : Andrographis Wall. ex Nees - false waterwillow
Species : Andrographis paniculata (Burm. f.) Wall. ex Nees - green chireta
Plant Location in Melghat : Makhala  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Acanthaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Green chiretta, Andrographis, Kalmegh, Creat, Kalpanath, Kirayat
 
Synonym : Andrographis subspathulata C. B. Cl.
Justicia latebrosa Russ. ex Wall.
Justicia paniculata Burm. fil.
Justicia stricta Lam. ex Steud.
Description : Slender woody herbs; branches glabrous. Leaves to 9 x 1.5 cm, elliptic, acuminate at apex, base acute, decussate, glabrous. Panicle terminal and upper axillary, glandular-hairy. Flowers many, distant; calyx lobes 3 mm long, linear, hairy, connate at base; corolla 14 mm long, tube ventricose, hairy, upper lip entire, midlobe of lower lip broader than laterals, acute, glandular-hairy; ovary puberulus, style hairy. Capsule 20-30 x 3 mm, oblong, acute, hairy; retinacula spoon shaped; seeds 8, glabrous.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, ulcer, leprosy, bronchitis, skin diseases, flatulence, colic, influenza, dysentery, dyspepsia and malaria
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Andrographolide
deoxyandrographolide
neoandrographolide
Andrographolactone
Andrographidoid A
Andrographidoid B
Andrographidoid C
Andrographidoid D
Andrographidoid E
Panicoline
Paniculide A
Paniculide B
Paniculide C
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 :

~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID :

~ AHM Mahmudur Rahman; "A Review on Medicinal Plants with Anticancer Activity Available In Bangladesh"; Mod Appl Pharm Pharmacol (2018); 1(4). MAPP.000516 PMID :

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~ Kavishankar, G.B; Lakshmidevi, N.; Murthy, S.M.; Prakash, H.S. and Niranjana, S.R.; "Diabetes and medicinal plants-A review"; Int J Pharm Biomed Sci (2011); 2(3): 65-80 PMID :