Indigofera tinctoria L. - true indigo
Indigofera tinctoria L. - true indigo
Indigofera tinctoria L. - true indigo
MS039 : Indigofera tinctoria L.
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 140 |
| Synonym | : | Indigofera houer Forssk.;
Indigofera indica Lam.;
Indigofera oligophylla Baker.;
Indigofera sumatrana Gaertn.;
Indigofera tinctoria var. brachycarpa DC.;
Indigofera tinctoria var. macrocarpa DC.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | True Indigo • Hindi: Neel, Nil, Nil-ka-jhar • Kannada: Ajara, Ajura, Anjooraneeli • Ladakhi: Ni la • Malayalam: Amari, Amen, Ameri • Manipuri: Nim • Marathi: Gulee, Nali, Neel • Sanskrit: Akika, Anjanakesika, Asita, Bhadra, Neelinee • Tamil: Achitam, Nilam • Telugu: Konda nili, Neel • Urdu: Habb-ul-neel |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | Erect shrub to 1.5 m tall, many-branched from base. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets opposite, 11-13, 1.5-2.5 × 0.7-1 cm, oblong, elliptic or oblanceolate, membranous, puberulent on lower surface, the apex mucronulate, rounded or seldom obtuse, the base tapering to obtuse, the margins entire; petiolules 1-1.5 mm long; stipules awl-shaped, 2-3 mm long, persistent. Racemes axillary, many-flowered, 5-10 cm long, sericeous; bracts minute, persistent. Calyx bell-shaped, 1-1.5 mm long, pubescent; corolla pink, tomentose without, the standard to 5 mm long, broadly elliptic, the wings and keel as long as the standard. Legume 3-3.5 cm long, curved only at apex, cylindrical, becoming glabrous, tardily dehiscent; seeds ca. 2 mm long, square-shaped to oblong |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Mostly around villages & roadsides |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Eye problems; A leaf infusion (sometimes combined with honey or milk) is used to treat a range of disorders including epilepsy and nervous disorders; asthma and bronchitis; fever; complaints of the stomach, liver, kidney and spleen; and as a rabies prophylactic. Applied externally, the leaves are made into an ointment for treating skin diseases, wounds, sores, ulcers and haemorrhoids. A tincture of the seed is used in India to kill lice. A root preparation is applied to relieve toothache, syphilis, gonorrhea and kidney stones. A watery root paste is applied topically in India to treat worm-infested wounds. A root infusion is used there as an anti-dote against snake bites and to treat insect and scorpion stings. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: deguelin; dehydrodeguelin; rotenol; rotenone; tephrosin; sumatrol; indican; indirubin; Rutin; louisfieserone; tetracyclic acid; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5): Rutin; Deguelin; Tephrosin; Rotenone; Sumatrol; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Indigofera+tinctoria
- https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/28613
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/225874
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/True%20Indigo.html
- http://www.mpbd.info/plants/indigofera-tinctoria.php
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3331051/pdf/ASL_21_235.pdf |
| 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 ~ Sakthivel Srinivasan, Wankupar Wankhar, Sheeladevi Rathinasamy, and Ravindran Rajan; "Free radical scavenging potential and HPTLC analysis of Indigofera tinctoria linn (Fabaceae)"; J Pharm Anal. (2016); 6(2): 125-131 PMID : 29403972 ~ 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 : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Ethnomedicinal plants used in skin treatment by Korkus of Melghat Dist. Amravati (MS), India"; Life Sciences Leaflets (2011); 178-191 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Rosidae |
| Order | : Fabales |
| Family | : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family |
| Genus | : Indigofera L. - indigo |
| Species | : Indigofera tinctoria L. - true indigo |