Cissampelos pareira L. - velvetleaf
Cissampelos pareira L. - velvetleaf
Cissampelos pareira L. - velvetleaf
Cissampelos pareira L. - velvetleaf
Cissampelos pareira L. - velvetleaf
MC001 : Cissampelos pareira L.
| Plant Category | : | Climbers |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 4 |
| Synonym | : | Cissampelos argentea Kunth.; Cissampelos pareira var. australis (A.St.-Hil.) Diels.; Cissampelos pareira var. hirsuta (Buch-Ham. ex DC.) Forman.; Cissampelos pareiroides DC.; Cocculus membranaceus Wall. [Invalid] .; Cyclea madagascariensis Baill. |
| Plant Common Name | : | Pahadmul, Leghu patha, Akanadi, Pada, abuta, barbasco, false pareira brava, false pareira root, ice vine, midwife's herb, pereira root, velvet leaf |
| Plant Family | : | Menispermaceae |
| Description | : | It is a slender tomentose climber. The leaves are peltate, 2.5–12 cm long, 2.5–11.5 cm broad, triangularly broad-ovate, or orbicular, obtuse, mucronate, base cordate or truncate, ± tomentose on both sides; petiole pubescent. Flowers are small in size, pedicels filiform. Male flowers clustered in the axil of a small leaf; sepals are 4 in number, obovate-oblong, hairy outside; petals 4 in number, united to form a 4-toothed cup, hairy outside; stamens 4, column short, anthers connate, encircling the top of the column. Female flowers clustered in the axils of orbicular, hoary imbricate bracts, on 5–10 cm long racemes; sepal 1, petal 1; carpel 1, densely hairy; style shortly 3-fid. Drupe 4–6 mm long, 3–4 mm broad, subglobose, compressed, hairy-pubescent, red when fresh, black when dry, endocarp transversely ribbed, tuberculate. Seeds are horseshoe-shaped. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Riverbanks & Roadsides |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Cissampelos pareira is used in Chinese herbology, where it is called xí sh?ng téng. The species is also known as abuta and called laghu patha in Ayurvedic medicine. In Tamil Nadu it is called ponmusutai and it is used for a number of medicinal purposes.
Some attention has been paid to it in Kenya, Tanzania, and other places for its purported anti-malarial properties in particular, as well as in India for its anti-viral properties, especially against Dengue virus. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Alkaloides : Magnoflorine; Magnocurarine; Cissamine; Curine; Hayatinine; Cycleanine; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Cycleanine; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve.
- Bala M. et al. "Bioactive isoquinoline alkaloides from Cissampelos pareira", (2017), Nat. Prod. Res. PMID : 29126362 |
| Reference | : | ~ R I Patel; "Forest flora of Melghat"; Prabhat Press, Meerut (1968); PMID : ~ Abeynayake Pemadasa, Jansz Manori, Rajoria Kshpira and Singh Sarvesh Kumar; "Role of Rajayapana basti with reference to Duchenne muscular Dystrophy: A review"; Int. J. Res. Ayurveda Pharm. (2016); 7(4): 7-10 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ RLS Sikarwar, Bharat Pathak & Anil Jaiswal; "Some unique ethnomedicinal perceptions of tribal communities of Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2008); 7(4): 613-617 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Magnoliidae |
| Order | : Ranunculales |
| Family | : Menispermaceae - Moonseed family |
| Genus | : Cissampelos L. - cissampelos |
| Species | : Cissampelos pareira L. - velvetleaf |