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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH186 : Scoparia dulcis L.

Plant Category : Herbs
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 360
Synonym : Ambulia micrantha Raf.; Gratiola micrantha Nuttall; Scoparia grandifiora Nash; Scoparia gypsophyloides Walp.; Scoparia nudicaulis Chod. & Hassl.; Scoparia procumbens Jacq.; Scoparia purpurea Ridl.; Scoparia ternata Forssk.;
Plant Common Name : Sweet broom weed, Liquorice weed, Sweet broomweed, Mithi Patti, Dulas, Mundari Madhukam, Sweet-broom, Patale Mishri, Sweet Broom Weed, Bitterbroom, Jastmadhu, Rice-weed, Chinibuta, Broomweed, Licorice Weed, Ghoda Tulsi, Sarkarai vaembu, Sarakkotthini
Plant Family : Plantaginaceae
Description : Herbs or suffrutescent subshrub, erect, to 1 m tall. Branches ribbed to narrowly winged, puberulent at nodes. Leaves petiolate; leaf blade rhomboid-ovate to rhomboid-lanceolate, to 3.6 X 1.5 cm, glabrous, glandular punctate, base cuneate, margin toothed above middle, sometimes slightly double serrate, or subentire, apex obtuse. Flowers usually axillary, (1 or)2 per node. Pedicel 5-10 mm, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx lobed to base; lobes 4, ovate-oblong, ca. 2 mm, margin ciliate, apex obtuse. Corolla white, ca. 4 mm. in diam.; tube densely hairy at throat; lobes 2-3 mm, margin erose-denticulate, apex obtuse; upper lobe slightly larger than others. Stamens exserted. Style erect; stigma truncate to 2-parted. Capsule 2-3 cm in diam., columella persistent.
Plant Location in Melghat : Kolkaz, Harisal,in Sipna river bed
Medicinal Use / Activity : The whole plant is used for ailments like Diarrhea, stomach-ache, kidney stones, kidney problems, and fever. anti-diabetic, digestive problems, pulmonary complaints, fevers, skin disorders, antibilious, antibiotic, anti-dote, aphrodisiac, bitter, blood purifier, emetic, febrifuge, hepatic, hypoglycaemic, stomachic, cough, bronchitis, hypertension, haemorrhoids, insect bites, cytotoxic activity against cancer
Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: noradrenaline; adrenaline; Scoparic acid A; Scoparic acid B; Scopadulcic acid A; Scopadulcic acid B; Scopadulciol; Scopadulin; alpha-amyrin; betulinic acid; dulcioic acid; friedelin; glutinol; ifflaionic acid; isovitexin; hydroxamic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4):

Friedelin;

Betulinic acid;

Alpha-amyrin;

Betulin;

Plant's Current Status : Rare
Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142
Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877526/ - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/231128 - https://www.drugs.com/npp/sweet_broomweed.html
Reference : ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Nduche, M.U. and Okwulehie, I.C.; "ETHNOMEDICINAL SURVEY OF PLANTS USED IN TREATING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES IN ABIA STATE, NIGERIA"; Review of Plant Studies (2014); 1(2): 1-9 PMID :

~ Das, DC.; Sinha, NK.; Chattopadhyay JC.; Das M. and Samanta P.; "The use of medicinal plants for the treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in south west Bengal of India"; International Journal of Phytomedicine (2013); 5: 14-17 PMID :

~ Kavishankar, G.B; Lakshmidevi, N.; Murthy, S.M.; Prakash, H.S. and Niranjana, S.R.; "Diabetes and medicinal plants-A review"; Int J Pharm Biomed Sci (2011); 2(3): 65-80 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Lamiales
Family : Plantaginaceae
Genus : Scoparia
Species : Scoparia dulcis L.

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