MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH051 : Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 129 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Leguminosae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Creeping Tick Trefoil, three-flower beggarweed, tropical trefoil,three-flower beggarweed, matty desmodium, Kudaliya, motha, chipti, ran-methi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Hedysarum stipulaceum Burm.f. Hedysarum triflorum Linn. |
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| Description : | Perennial herb, creeping, branches prostrate, rooting at nodes, pubescent. Leaf trifoliolate, petiole 5-7 mm long, leaflets 5-7 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, obovate, cuneate, truncate or emarginate, glabrous above, pubescent below; stipules 3.5-4.5 mm long, obovate, acuminate. Inflorescence axillary fascicles of 1-5 flowers, bracts ovate, acute, ciliate, pedicel 4.5- 5.0 mm long. Calyx 3.5-4.5 mm long, pubescent, teeth longer than the tube. Corolla 5 mm long, pink or white. Fruit 10-16 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm broad, upper suture straight, lower indented, articles 3-5, as broad as long, puberulous. Fl.Per.: July-August. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Fresh leaves—used internally as galactagogue and for Diarrhea; applied externally to wounds and abscesses. Root—diuretic. Also used for cough, asthma. Dysentery, antitoxic, hepatitis, red eye with in?ammation, lymph infection, anthelmintic action against Ascaris lumbricoides. curing cough, bronchitis and fever | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | alpha-phenylamine indole-3-acetic acid tyramine trigonelline hypaphorine N, N-dimethyl tryptophan methyl ester S-l-stachydrine 3,4-di-hydroxy phenylethyl trimethyl ammonium cation choline betaine hypaphorine |
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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 ~ Vedpal, S P; Dhanabal, Shainesh Antony; and Ashish Wadwani; "Isolated baicalein flavonoid from Desmodium triflorum Linn attenuates allergen-induced airway inflammation and oxidative stress in asthma"; J Allergy Ther (2018); 9: 19 PMID : ~ Anu K Thankachan, Meena Chandran, K. Krishnakumar; "Pharmacological activity of Desmodium triflorum - A review"; Asian Journal of Phytomedicine and Clinical Research (2017); 5(1): 33-41 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 : ~ 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 : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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