MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MC022 : Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 300 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On hedges and thickets | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Climbers | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Asclepiadaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Utaran Vel, Utaran, Sagovani, Aakasan, Gadaria Ki bel, Jutak, Uttamarani, Kurutakah, Visanika, Kakajangha; | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Asclepias convolvulacea Willd. Asclepias daemia Forssk. Asclepias echinata Roxb. [Illegitimate] Asclepias echinata Decne. Asclepias muricata Schumach. & Thonn. Asclepias scandens P.Beauv. [Illegitimate] Daemia aethiopica Decne. Daemia angolensis Decne. Daemia barbata Klotzsch Daemia bicolor Sweet Daemia cordifolia K.Schum. ex Engl. Daemia extensa R.Br. Daemia forsskalii Schult. Daemia glabra Schult. Daemia guineensis G.Don Daemia scandens G.Don ex Loudon Pergularia barbata (Klotzsch) N.E. Br. ex Brenan Raphistemma ciliatum Hook.f. (Unresolved) Cynanchum extensum Jacq. (Unresolved) Daemia extensa (Jacq.) R. Br. ex Schult. Pergularia extensa (Jacq.) N.E. Br. |
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| Description : | Perennial twining herb, juice milky, branches with spreading hairs. Leaves 5-15 x 3.8-9.5 cm, broadly ovate or suborbicular, base cordate, tip acute to acuminate, glabrous or shortly pubescent above, usually velvety pubescent below. Petiole 1.8-9 cm long. Flowers in lateral cymes. Pedicel 1.8-3.5 cm long, pubescent. Bracts minute, lanceolate. Sepals c. 2-3 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, generally hairy. Corolla greenish-yellow or dull white, tube c.3.5 mm long, lobes c. 7 mm long, spreading, ovate-oblong, pubescent. Outer corona membranous, truncate, inner corona lobes 5-8 mm long, including the horns. Follicles 5-8 x 12-13 cm, lanceolate, beaked, echinate, puberulous. Seeds c. 8 x 4 mm, ovate, tip truncate, velvety pubescent. Coma 2.5-3.0 cm long. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Traditionally it has been used as an elmintic, laxative, anti-pyretic and expectorant, besides treatment of infantile Diarrhea, malarial intermittent fevers, toothaches and colds. Studies have shown Hepatoprotective, anti-fertility, anti-diabetic, analgesic, anti-pyretic and anti-inflammatory properties of substances in its aerial parts. Used for uterine and menstrual troubles and to facilitate parturition. Juice of the leaves is considered useful in asthmatic affections and infantile Diarrhea; along with lime and ginger applied to rheumatic swellings. Pulp of fresh leaves are used as a stimulating poultice in carbuncle with good effect. Root bark is given as an anthelmintic; mixed with cow’s milk as a purgative in rheumatic cases (Yusuf et al. 2009). | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | alpha-amyrin alpha-amyrin acetate Beta-amyrin Lupeol acetate Beta-sitosterol hentriacontane betaine pituitrin daemine Uzarogenin coroglaucigenin calotropin calactin corotoxigenin calotoxin calotropagenin dihydrocalotropagenin uscharin protouscharin uacharidin Lupeol |
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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 ~ K. Karthishwaran and S. Mirunalini; "Therapeutic Potential of Pergularia daemia (Forsk.): The Ayurvedic Wonder"; International Journal of Pharmacology (2010); 6(6): 836-843 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 : ~ 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 : ~ 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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