MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH002 : Argemone mexicana L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 7 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Common throughout in stream and river beds | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Papaveraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Pivala Dhotra, Bilayati, K-Killai, Mexican poppy, Mexican prickly poppy, flowering thistle, cardo or cardosanto Mexican Prickly Poppy, Mexican poppy, Prickly Poppy, Siyal-Kanta, Satyanashi, Bharband, Datturigidda, Phirangi dhutro, Ponnummattu, Khomthongpee, Firangi dhotra, Kshirini, Swarnakshiri, Kudiyotti, Brahmadandi, Satyaanaasi, Thaakal, Sungure Kaandaa, Kaande | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Argemone leiocarpa Greene. |
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| Description : | annual herb, growing up to 150 cm with a slightly branched tap root. Its stem is branched and usually extremely prickly. It exudes a yellow juice when cut. It has showy yellow flowers. Leaves are thistle-like and alternate, without leaf stalks (petioles), toothed (serrate) and the margins are spiny. The grey-white veins stand out against the bluish-green upper leaf surface. The stem is oblong in cross-section. Flowers are at the tips of the branches (are terminal) and solitary, yellow and of 2.5-5 cm diameter. Fruit is a prickly oblong or egg-shaped (ovoid) capsule. Seeds are very numerous, nearly spherical, covered in a fine network of veins, brownish black and about 1 mm in diameter. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Root - Skin diseases, relieve kidney pain; Seeds - Laxative, Anti-cancer(Elisa et al., 2015) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Sanguinarine Dihydrosanguinarine Dehydrocorydalmine Jatrorrhizine Columbamine Oxy-berberine Berberine Protopine |
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| Reference : | ~ Holaly E. Gbekley, Gnatoulma Katawa, Simplice D. Karou, SKokou Anani, Tchacondo Tchadjobo, Yaovi Ameyapoh, Komlan Batawila, and Jacques Simpore; "Ethnobotanical Study Of Plants Used To Treat Asthma In The Maritime Region In Togo"; Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. (2017); 14(1): 196-212 PMID : 28480398 ~ 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 : ~ Das, DC.; Sinha, NK.; Chattopadhyay JC.; Das M. and Samanta P.; "The use of medicinal plants for the treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in south west Bengal of India"; International Journal of Phytomedicine (2013); 5: 14-17 PMID : ~ Rajendra Prasad Bharti, Abhilasha shrivastava, Jagjeevan Ram Choudhary, Asha Tiwari and N. K. Soni; "Ethno Medicinal Plants used by Tribal Communities in Vindhya region of Rewa and Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh, India"; IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences (2013); 8(6): 23-28 PMID : |
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