Tylophora indica
Tylophora indica
Author : (Burm.f.) Merr.
Family : Asclepiadaceae

Habit: Slender climber
Sanskrit: Latakshiri
English: Emetic swallow-wory, Indian or Country ipecacuanha
 
Description
A branching climber, with ovate-oblong, thick leaves, greenish-yellow flowers, in many-flowered umbels, fusiform, divaricate follicles containing ovate seeds with long coma.
Useful part

Root, leaves
Medicinal Uses

asthma, bronchitis, whooping cough, dysentery, diarrhoea, wounds, ulcers, bleedings, cancerous tumours, murine leukaemia, inflammations, hydrophobia
Major chemical constituents

Tylophoridinidine, tylophorine, tylophorinine, kaempferol