Rotula aquatica
| Author : Lour. |
| Family : Boraginaceae |
Habit:Shrub |
| Sanskrit: Pashanabhedah |
| English: - |
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Rotula aquatica |
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| Description | ||||||
| A small, much branched shrub, mostly in sandy and rocky beds of streams, with oblong to obovate-spathulate leaves, solitary or to 5, axillary or terminal, pink flowers, in corymbs, sub-globose, orange-red drupe consisting of 5 pyrenes. | ||||||
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| Medicinal Uses | ||||||
| Roots are useful in haemorrhoids, renal and vesical calculi, diabetes and venereal diseases. | ||||||
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