MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH353 : Chlorophytum arundinaceum Baker |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Semadoh | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Liliaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Musli Bhed, Musli Safed, Biskandri, Safed Musli, India Spider Plant, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Chlorophytum breviscapum sensu Hook. f. p.p. non Dalz. Anthericum tuberosum Hook.f., nom. illeg. |
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| Description : | Herbs bearing 15-50 cm long scape bearing white flowers. Scapigerous herbs; roots tuberous. Leaves to 15 x 3 cm, lanceolate-acuminate. Scape longer than leaves, to 40 cm long. Flowers in pairs; bracts small, membranous; pedicel c. 7 mm, jointed above middle. Tepals 6, white, oblong, c. 8 mm long. Stamens 6, anthers longer than filaments. Capsule 3-lobed; seeds orbicular, rugose. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Tubers having medicinal value are used as general tonic, containing the steroid sapogenine (1-2%), protein (10-20%) and calcium. Tubers are fat free and they have high aphrodisiac property. It is also useful in diseases like renal calculus, Leucorrhoea and diabetes. Immunomodulator, stimulant and tonic, antistress, adaptogen, anti-oxidant, anti-microbial, antimutagenic, anti-ulcer, antitumor, aphrodisiac, glactogen, antidibetic; Sexual disorders, decreased libido, cough and asthma, dysuria, polyuria, gonorrhea, menorrhagia, leucorrhea, piles and leucoderma, diabetes, obesity and immune problems, ophthalmic conditions, vomiting, dyspepsia, lumbago, joint pain and problems associated nervous system. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | stigmasterol furostanol chlorophytum-I Tokorogenin, neo-getogenin stigastrol and arundinoside-A arundinoside-B |
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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 ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 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 ~ MA Rachchh, MB Shah, DD Santani and SS Goswami; "Study of Chlorophytum arundinaceum against Experimental Gastric Ulcer"; Pharmaceutical Biology (2005); 42(8): 592-598 PMID : ~ Sharada Laxman Deore, Neha Brijmohan Jajoo, Kailaspati Prabhakar Chittam and Tushar Atmaram Deshmukh; "Comparative Pharmacognostic, Phytochemical and Biological evaluation between five Chlorophytum species"; Pharmacognosy Journal (2015); 7(5): 317-325 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 : ~ Payal Sharma and Kaushal K Chandrul; "Chlorophytum borivilianum (Safed musli): A Vital Herbal Drug"; Int. J. Pharm. Med. Res. (2017); 5(1): 401-411 PMID : ~ Neetu Bansal; "Safed musli chlorophytum borivilianum"; MOJ Bioequivalence & Bioavailability (2018); 5(6): 327-330 PMID : |
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