Nepeta hindosthana
Nepeta hindosthana
Nepeta hindosthana
Nepeta hindosthana
Nepeta hindosthana
Nepeta hindosthana
MH228 : Nepeta hindostana (Roth) Haines
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 423 |
| Synonym | : | Glechoma hindostana Roth.;
Nepeta calaminthoides Benth.;
Nepeta ruderalis Buch.-Ham. ex Benth.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | North Indian Catmint, Billilotan, arq badranj boya, badran boya, Cal Mint, |
| Plant Family | : | Lamiaceae / Labiatae |
| Description | : | Annual or short-lived perennial. Stems erect or ascending rather slender, 30-50 cm, with a rather dense eglandular retrorse or spreading indumentum. Leaves broad ovate or triangular-ovate up to c. 25 x 25 mm, truncate cuneate or subcordate, crenate-dentate, all petiolate; petiole on lowermost leaves to 20 mm. Inflorescence lax, of many clearly pedunculate cymes, at least below, or verticillasters, lowermost arising from leaf roils, mostly distant. Pedicels up to 3 mm. Bracts linear-subulate, c. as long as calyces, ciliate. Calyx 3.5-4 mm, often purplish, with spreading villous hairs, narrow tubular; throat oblique; teeth c. 1/3-1/4 length of tube, subulate. Corolla lilac to purplish, c. 8 mm. Nutlets c. 1 x 0.6 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, palish brown, depressed-tuberculate, with a bilobed basal areole, mucilaginous on wetting. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Chikhaldara plateaux |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The plant is known for uses such as cardiac, brain, and gastric
tonic. It is a blood purifier and relieves high blood pressure. It
has anti-asthmatic, anti-catarrhal, and sedative properties. It is used to treat fever, body ache, diarrheoa, dysentery,
as a carminative and antispasmodic agent, as a gargle for sore throat and bad breath, also to treat gonorrhea. The plant also has hypocholesterolaemic and central nervous system (CNS) depressant effects. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: nepehinal; nepeticin; nepehinol; triterpenic acid; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Not Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242423415
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17345277
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/North%20Indian%20Catmint.html
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352385916300329 |
| Reference | : | ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697 ~ Sushma Devi and Randhir Singh; "Assessment of lipid lowering effect of Nepeta hindostana herb extract in experimentally induced dyslipidemia"; Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism (2017); 9: 17-23 PMID : ~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151 ~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320 ~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Lamiales |
| Family | : Lamiaceae / Labiatae - Mint family |
| Genus | : Nepeta L. - catnip |
| Species | : Nepeta hindosthana |