Indian sarsparilla (Hemidesmus
indicus)
This is a very important herb for Ayurveda.
This is use for Ayurvedic treatments(Piles, Asthma, Coughs, I Skin rashes, Oedeama).this is a slender, laticiferous, prostrate, twining
herb, or sometimes semi-erect shrub; roots woody and aromatic; stems numerous,
slender, terete, thickened at the nodes. Leaves opposite, short-petiolated,
very variable, elliptic-oblong to linear-lanceolate. Inflorescences cymes.
Flowers axillary, greenish outside, purplish inside.
LAMIACEAE(Plectranthus zatarhendi var. tomentosa)
This plant’s Family name is “LAMIACEAE”. This is
Perennial herb, it is 60-90 cm tall;
stems so0mewhat prostrating, bluntly quadrangular, reddish and hairy. Leaves
opposite, 5.3-6.5 cm long and broad, hairy on oth sides; petioles 2.5-3 cm
long, reddish, hairy. Flowers light blue, 1 cm long, narrow, in whorls, -10
flowers in terminal racemes. Racemes 15-23 cm long. Corolla 2-lipped consisting
of 5 segments. Fruit of 4, one-seeded achenes.
Scientific name: (Phoenix pusilla)
This plant’s Family name is “ARECACEAE”. This
plant use for many Ayurvedic treatments. this is a dioecious palm, trunk 2.6-7
m high. Leaves pinnatisect; leaflets 17.5-20 cm long. Spathe 20-35 cm long.
Spadix about 30 cm long, peduncle stout. Rachis of male flowers 10-15 cm long,
of female flowers longer. Fruit about 1.2 cm long, 6 mm diameter, red, pericarp
fleshy.
Scientific name: (Strychnos potatorum)
This is aTree. It’s Family name is “LOGANIACEAE”.
This tree use for Ayurvedic treatments. It is 5-15 m tall, erect; Leaves sessile or
subsessile; lamina 4-9.5 (-12) X 2.5- 6.25 cm, ovate to ovate- ell. iptic or
ovate- lanceolate, apex acute or more rarely subacute to obtuse, base acute to
rounded or obscurely subcordate, glabrous, somewhat glossy, 3-5 veined. Flowers
greenish-yellow, slender pedicelled in small, compact axillary, small-bracteate
cymes. Fruits 1.25-2 cm diam.,ripening blackish.
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