MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH422 : Chenopodium album L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Chenopodiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bathua, fat hen, lamb's quarters, white goosefoot • Assamese: bathuwa shaak, jilmil shaak ? Bengali: betho shaak, bethuya shaak • Bengali: betho shaak, bethuya shaak • Gujarati: bathavo, chilani bhaji • Hindi: bathuwa • Kannada: chakravarti, chakkavatta, huchcha chakkota • Malayalam: parippuchira, vastuchira • Manipuri: monshaobi • Marathi: chakvat, vasukem • Nepali: bethe • Oriya: bathua sag • Sanskrit: vastuka • Tamil: chakravarthi keerai, paruppu-k-kirai • Tangkhul: Kazingtareihan • Telugu: pappukura, vastukamu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Chenopodium album f. subhastatum Issler ex Murr. Chenopodium album subsp. bernburgense Murr. Chenopodium album subsp. collinsii Murr. Chenopodium album subsp. densifoliatum Ludw. & Aellen. Chenopodium album subsp. reticulatum (Aellen) Greuter & Burdet. Chenopodium album subsp. subficifolium Murr. Chenopodium album var. cymigerum W. D. J. Koch. Chenopodium album var. dacoticum Aellen. Chenopodium album var. stevensii Aellen. Chenopodium glomerulosum Rchb. Chenopodium lobodontum H. Scholz. Chenopodium paganum Rchb. Chenopodium reticulatum Aellen. Chenopodium subficifolium (Murr) Druce. Chenopodium subhastatum (Issler ex Murr) F. Dvorák. |
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| Description : | Annual, 10-150 cm, usually erect, variously branched, ± grey farinose. Stems yellowish to green, green-striated, sometimes reddish or with red spots at leaf axils. Lower and medium leaves petiolate, blade usually 2-6(-10) cm, variously trullate, rhombic-ovate to lanceolate, clearly longer than broad, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, margins irregularly serrate to entire, often somewhat 3-lobed, teeth mostly acute, often unequal in size; uppermost leaves lanceolate, usually entire. Inflorescence a variable spiciform or cymosely branched panicle, mostly terminal. Perianth segments 5, dorsally keeled. Perianth falling with fruit. Pericarp thin, ± adherent. Seeds horizontal, black, 1.1-1.5 mm in diameter, somewhat ovate, margin weakly acute; testa with faint radial striae, otherwise almost smooth. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The leaves may be taken in the form of an infusion or decoction as a laxative and anthelminthic. It has also been recommended by Hindu physicians as a treatment for hepatic disorders and splenic enlargement. Seeds are used traditionally to improve the appetite and as an anthelmintic, laxative, aphrodisiac and a tonic. They have also been used to treat biliousness, stomach pains, eye and throat problems, piles, and diseases of blood, heart and spleen. hypoglycemic, anti-bacterial, spasmolytic, anti-pruritic, anti-inflammatory, Hepatoprotective, anti-oxidant, anti-cancer. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | p-cymene ascaridole pinane-2-ol alpha-pinene beta-pinene alpha-terpineol limonene linalyl acetate niacine betain oxalic acid oleanolic acid sitosterol Cinnamic acid sinapic acid ferulic acid pinoresinol syringaresinol lariciresinol Kaempferol Quercetin campesterol 20-hydroxyecdysone safrole Geraniol |
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| Reference : | ~ 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 : |
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