Leptadenia reticulata
Leptadenia reticulata
Author : (Retz.) Wight & Arn.
Family : Asclepiadaceae

Habit: Woody climber
Sanskrit: Jeevanti, Jeevani, Jeeva, Mahusrava, Payasvini, Shakashreshtha
English: -
 
Description
A much-branched twining shrub with yellowish-brown, corky, deeply cracked bark, ovate-cordate or elliptic-oblong leaves, numerous, greenish-yellow flowers, in axillary or terminal umbellate cymes and paired, cylindric, sub-woody, long, turgid follicles containing oblong, winged  seeds with brownish-white coma.
Useful part

Leaves, root
Medicinal Uses

nasal and ear disorders, fever with burning sensation, cough, diarrhoea, defects of vision, night blindness, chest pain, diseases of mouth, poisoning, skin affections, wounds, asthma, ringworm, lactation failure, uterine diseases, habitual abortions, dysmenorrhoea, impotency, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhoea
Major chemical constituents

Stigmasterol, hentriacontanol, α & β-amyrin, G-sitosterol, diosmetin, luteol, quercetin, isoquercitrin, rutin, hyperoside, mesoinositol, monomethyl ether