MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH286 : Salvia plebeia R.Br. |
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| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | LAMIACEAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Sage Weed; Hindi: Kamrkash, Samundarsok, Sathi; Kannada: kachora; Malayalam: pulam-kizhanma; Sanskrit: samudraphala, shati, vrddhadaru; Tamil: Chimaikkarppuram, kasturimanjal; Telugu: kachoralu, kichili-baddalu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Lumnitzera fastigiata (Roth) Spreng. Mosla virgata (Thunb.) Tanaka Ocimum fastigiatum Roth Ocimum virgatum Thunb. Salvia brachiata Roxb. Salvia minutiflora Bunge Salvia plebeia var. latifolia E.Peter |
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| Description : | an annual or biennial herb that is native to a wide region of Asia. In India, it grows in plains, streamsides, and wet fields from sea level to 1500 m. Sage Weed grows on erect stems to a height of 1.5-3 ft tall, with elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate leaves. Inflorescences are 6-flowered verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a distinctly small flowers, 4.5 mm, that comes in a wide variety of colors: reddish, purplish, purple, blue-purple, to blue, and rarely white. Sepals are 2-3.5 mm long or to 5 mm long in fruit. Flowering: all year. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The plant is astringent, diuretic and vermifuge. A paste of the plant is applied to wounds between the toes caused by prolonged walking barefoot in muddy water. The seeds are used in the treatment of Diarrhea, gonorrhea, menorrhagia and haemorrhoids. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | 6-Methoxyluteolin Hispidulin OLEANOLIC ACID |
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| Reference : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
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