Plectranthus amboinicus |
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| Description | ||||||
| An erect, succulent, highly aromatic herb, with hispidly villous fleshy stem, broadly ovate, thick and fleshy leaves, small purple flowers, in dense whorls at distant intervals in long slender racemes and fruit of 4 orbicular or ovoid, smooth nutlets. | ||||||
| Useful part | ||||||
Leaves |
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| Medicinal Uses | ||||||
| Head ache, diarrhoea, cholera, epilepsy, cough, chronic asthma, hiccough, bronchitis, liver disorders, malarial fever, vaginal discharge, digestion, kidney stones, painful urination, burns, centipede- & scorpion-bites, chapped lips, cracks at the corners of the mouth | ||||||
| Major chemical constituents | ||||||
carvacrol, ethyl salicylate, thymol, eugenol, chavicol, cirsimaritin, β-sitosterol-β-D-glucoside, oxalic acid |
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