MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH383 : Phyllanthus amarus Schum & Thonn. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Chandore | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Euphorbiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Carry Me Seed, Black catnip, Child pick-a-back, Gale of wind, Gulf leaf flower, Hurricane weed, Shatterstone, Stone breaker • Hindi: Bhui aonla, Jaramla, Jangli amli • Manipuri: Chakpa heikru • Marathi: bhuiavali • Tamil: keelanelli, kizkaynelli • Malayalam: Kilanelli • Telugu: nela usiri • Bengali: Bhui amla • Sanskrit: bahupatra, bhumyaamalaki • Kannada: Kiru Nelli | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Diasperus nanus (Hook.f.) Kuntze. Phyllanthus amarus var. baronianus Leandri, nom. inval. Phyllanthus nanus Hook.f. Phyllanthus niruri var. amarus (Schumach. & Thonn.) Leandri. Phyllanthus niruri var. baronianus (Leandri) Leandri, nom. inval. Phyllanthus niruri var. scabrellus (Webb) Müll.Arg. Phyllanthus niruroides var. madagascariensis Leandri, nom. inval. Phyllanthus scabrellus Webb. Phyllanthus swartzii Kostel. |
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| Description : | Erect herbs to 30 cm tall. Leaves 6-8 x 3-4 mm, oblong, base unequal sided, apex obtuse to acute, lower surface glaucous; stipules lanceolate, scarious. Male flowers towards tip of branchlets, solitary, axillary; tepals 5, ovate; stamens 3, exserted; filaments connate; disc of 5 glands. Female flowers c. 1.5 mm across; tepals 5, oblong; ovary globose; style erect, recurved; pedicel to 2 mm long. Capsule c. 2 mm across, globose. Seeds 6, trigonous, vertically muriculate. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Used in the problems of stomach, genitourinary system, liver, kidney and spleen. It is bitter, astringent, stomachic, diuretic, febrifuge and anti-septic. The whole plant is used in gonorrhea, menorrhagia and other genital affections. It is useful in gastropathy, Diarrhea, dysentery, intermittent fevers, ophthalmopathy, scabies, ulcers and wounds. Pharmacological activities including anti-viral, anti-bacterial, antiplasmodial, anti-inflammatory, anti-malarial, anti-microbial, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, hypolipidemic, anti-oxidant, Hepatoprotective nephroprotective and diurectic properties. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | phyllanthin hypophyllanthin nirurin quercetin quercetrin rutin diarylbutane hypophyllanthin geraniin corilagin arabinogalactan niranthrin phyltetralin antihyperuricimic securinine dihydrosecurinine tetrahydrosecurine Securinol-B Phyllanthine allosecurine norsecurinine 4-methoxy dihydrosecurinine, 4-methoxytetrahydrosecurinine 4-hydrosecurinine phyllanthenol phyllanthenone phytllantheol |
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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 ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID : ~ 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 : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Ethnomedicinal plants used in skin treatment by Korkus of Melghat Dist. Amravati (MS), India"; Life Sciences Leaflets (2011); 178-191 PMID : ~ Avni G. Desai, Ghulam N. Qazi, Ramesh K. Ganju, Mahmoud El-Tamer, Jaswant Singh, Ajit K. Saxena, Yashbir S. Bedi, Subhash C. Taneja, and Hari K. Bhat; "Medicinal Plants and Cancer Chemoprevention"; Curr Drug Metab. (2008); 9(7): 581–591 PMID : ~ Kavishankar, G.B; Lakshmidevi, N.; Murthy, S.M.; Prakash, H.S. and Niranjana, S.R.; "Diabetes and medicinal plants-A review"; Int J Pharm Biomed Sci (2011); 2(3): 65-80 PMID : |
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