Pergularia daemia |
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| Description | ||||||
| A foetid, laticiferous, pubescent twiner, with broadly ovate or deeply cordate leaves, axillary, greenish-yellow flowers, in long-peduncled, umbellate or corymbose clusters, lanceolate, long-pointed follicles covered with soft spines and containing obovate, brownish-white seeds with fringed wings and silky coma. | ||||||
| Useful part | ||||||
Leaves, fruits, tender vegetative parts |
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| Medicinal Uses | ||||||
| cough, asthma, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, intermittent fevers, leucoderma, worm infestations, bleeding, leprosy, uterine & menstrual disorders, toothache, purgative | ||||||
| Major chemical constituents | ||||||
Betaine, hentriacontane, lupeol, α- & β-amyrin, β-sitosterol, calactin, calotropin, calotropogenin |
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