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MS045 : Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 157  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Tephrosia Pers. - hoarypea
Species : Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. - fishpoison
Plant Location in Melghat : Around villages sites on open lands  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Fabaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Fish Poison, Wild Indigo, Purple Tephrosia, avasa; Sarphonk, Sharpunkha, sharpankha, unhali
 
Synonym : Cracca purpurea L.
Glycyrrhiza mairei H.Lév.
Tephrosia colonila (Ham.)Benth.
Tephrosia diffusa (Roxb.)Wight & Arn.
Tephrosia ionophlebia Hayata.
Tephrosia lanceifolia Link.
Tephrosia piscatoria (Aiton)Pers.
Tephrosia purpurea var. diffusa (Roxb.)Aitch.
Tephrosia purpurea var. pumila (Lam.) Baker.
Tephrosia purpurea var. pumila (Lam.) Baker
Description : Perennial erect or decumbent herbs or subshrubs, up to 50 cm tall. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 7-15, 1-2.8 x 0.3-1 cm, oblanceolate or obovate, base cuneate, apex obtuse to emarginate or truncate, mucronate; stipules 3-6 mm long, lanceolate. Flowers c. 7 mm long, in few-flowered, leaf-opposed, pseudoracemes; pedicels 3-4 mm long; bracts c. 2 mm long. Calyx 3-4 mm long., pubescent; lobes subulate. Corolla pink to purplish; standard c. 4 mm broad, orbicular. Staminal tube to 4 mm long. Pods 2.5-4 x 0.3-0.4 cm, linear-oblong, 5-7-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, dark brown.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Anthelmintic, alexipharma, diuretic, deobstruent, laxative, bronchitis, bilious, febrile attacks, boils, pimpls and bleeding piles. Decoction of leaves mixed with 1-2 cloves is used against dysentery.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : leaves: Rutin
Quercetin
Rotenone
Glabratephrin
(flavonoid): Tephrosin
Pongaglabol
Semiglabrin
Tephropurpin
Osyrtine
Lanceolatine (A)
Purpuranine A
Purpuranine B
Methyl pongamol lanceolatin B
Macckain
Stigmosterol
Beta-sitosterol
Compestrol
Stigmasta-4-ene-3-one
Stigmasta -4
22-diene-3-one
apollinine
Reference : ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID :

~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 PMID :

~ Sheela Kumar, V.K. Agnihotri, Sunita Thakur, Anita Verma1, R.C. Saxena and Kapil K. Soni; "Some important medicinal plants used in the treatment of Asthma - A review "; IJPSR (2012); 3(10): 500-502 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 :

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID :