MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MC016 : Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 205 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On hedges,Small trees,mostly aroud villages | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Climbers | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cucurbitaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Jangli Tondli, Kunzru, gentleman's toes, ivy gourd, kunduru, bimba, tendali, tondli | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Bryonia acerifolia D.Dietr. Bryonia alceifolia Willd. Bryonia barbata Buch.-Ham. ex Cogn. Bryonia grandis L. Bryonia sinuosa Wall. Cephalandra grandis Kurz Cephalandra indica (Wight & Arn.) Naudin Cephalandra moghadd (Asch.) Broun & Massey Cephalandra schimperi Naudin Coccinia cordifolia Cogn. Coccinia grandis var. wightiana (M.Roem.) Greb. Coccinia helenae Buscal. & Muschl. Coccinia indica Wight & Arn. Coccinia loureiriana M.Roem. Coccinia moghadd (J.F.Gmel.) Asch. Coccinia moimoi M.Roem. Coccinia palmatisecta Kotschy Coccinia schimperi Naudin Coccinia wightiana M.Roem. Cucumis pavel Kostel. Cucurbita dioica Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. Momordica bicolor Blume. |
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| Description : | Perennial, climbing and widely spreading, sometimes prostrate, bright green. Stem much branched, cylindrical, glabrous or white scaly. Petiole slender, striate, 2-5 cm long. Leaves 5-10 cm long, equally broad, cordate, usually entire to 5-angular with few glistering glands on both sides of the midrib towards the base. Probract small. Flowers large, white, c. 4 cm long, pedicellate, solitary, male and female on different plants. Fruit cylindrical or fusiform, 2.5-5 x 1.2-2.5 cm, bright scarlet when ripe, slightly beaked, many seeded. Seeds asymmetrically pyriform in outline, c. 6 x 4 mm, compressed. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Various preparations of roots, stems and leaves of Coccinia grandis have been mentioned in indigenous systems of medicine as being efficacious in the treatment of skin diseases, bronchial catarrh, bronchitis and diabetes. In traditional medicine, fruits have been used to treat leprosy, fever, asthma, bronchitis, and jaundice. The fruit possesses mast cell-stabilizing, antianaphylactic, and antihistaminic potential. In Bangladesh, the roots are used to treat osteoarthritis and joint pain. A paste made of leaves is applied to the skin to treat scabies. analgesic, anti-pyretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-ulcer, anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant, hypoglycemic, Hepatoprotective, anti-malarial, antidyslipidemic, anti-cancer, antitussive, mutagenic | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Heptacosane Cephalandrol Beta-sitosterol Cephalandrins A Cephalandrins B Beta-amyrin Acetate Lupeol Cucurbitacin B Taraxerone Taraxerol Beta-carotene Lycopene Cryptoxanthin Xyloglucan Carotenoids Stigma-7-en-3-one Carbonic acid Beta-amyrin |
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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 ~ Dnyaneshwar J Taur and Ravindra Y Patil; "Mast Cell Stabilizing, Antianaphylactic and Antihistaminic Activity of Coccinia grandis Fruits in Asthma"; Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines (2011); 9(5): 359-362 PMID : ~ Sakharkar P and Chauhan B; "Antibacterial, antioxidant and cell proliferative properties of Coccinia grandis fruits"; Avicenna J Phytomed (2017); 7(4): 295-307 PMID : 28884080 ~ 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 : ~ 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 : ~ 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 : ~ Prashant Sakharkar and Balwantsinh Chauhan; "Antibacterial, antioxidant and cell proliferative properties of Coccinia grandis fruits"; Avicenna J Phytomed (2017); 7(4): 295-307 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 : |
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