MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS061 : Embelia ribes Burm.f. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 286 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In Bori, Chaurakund, Dolar, Chikhaldara | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Primulaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Waiwarang, Bhrangeli, Vidanga, Baoberang, Embelia • Gujarati: Vavding • Hindi: Vidanga • Kannada: amogha, hulimeese, vaayu vilanga • Malayalam: Vizhal, Vizhalari, Vayuvilangam • Marathi: ambti, baavdinga, karkannie, karkunnie • Sanskrit: amodha, amogha, vidanga • Tamil: vitankam, vivilangam, vollai • Telugu: vellal, vidangamu, vilangamu, vyivilangamu • Urdu: baobadang, baobarang, bab-o rang | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Embelia paniculata Antidesma ribes |
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| Description : | Climbers; branchlets slender, white, without lenticellate. Leaves to 7 x 3 cm, elliptic, acute at both ends; nerves many, parallel, faint; petiole 1 cm long. Panicles 15 x 15 cm, glabrous, branches long, slender racemose; pedicels 1.5 cm long. Flowers white, many; sepals small, triangular, tomentose; petals 2 mm long, ovate, acute, densely tomentose. Berry 2.5 mm across, globose. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Improves the functioning of the digestive system and alleviates flatulence, gaseous belching and constipation. Useful in expelling the tape worm out of the digestive system, facial paralysis, epilepsy and insanity. Paste of Embelia ribes reduces cavities and skin associated disease. It is being used in indigestion, constipation, paralysis, convulsions, epilepsy, wormal infestation, infections in body. It also helps in blood purification and healing of wound. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Embelin Embelinol Embeliaribyl ester Embeliol Vilangin Quercitol christembine Sitosterol daucosterol vanillic acid cinnamic acid, caffeic acid chrorogenic acid o-cumaric acid |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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