Plumbago indica
| Author : L |
| Family : Plumbaginaceae |
Habit: Shrub |
| Sanskrit: Chitrakah, Dahanah |
| English: Rosy-flowered leadwort, Fire plant |
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Plumbago indica |
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| Description | ||||||
| A pretty perennial shrub, with stout, cylindrical, yellowish-brown roots, exuding a yellowish juice from the fresh cut surface, ovate-oblong leaves having reddish petiole, showy bright red flowers, in long terminal spikes. | ||||||
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| inflammations, cough, bronchitis, worm infestations, bleeding, elephantiasis, chronic & intermittent fevers, leprosy, leucoderma, ringworm, scabies, liver & spleen disorders, amenorrhoea, anaemia, cancer | ||||||
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