Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R. Br.
Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R. Br.
Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R. Br.
MS068 : Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R. Br.
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 302 |
| Synonym | : | Asclepias pseudosarsa Roxb.;
Cosmostigma cordatum (Poir.) M.R.Almeida.;
Hemidesmus cordatus (Poir.) Schult.;
Hemidesmus pubescens Wight & Arn.;
Hemidesmus wallichii Miq. ex Hook. fil.;
Periploca cordata Poir.;
Periploca indica L.;
Periploca malabarica Burm. ex Decne.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Anantmul, Khobar Vel, Indian Sarsaparilla • Hindi: Anantamul, Dudhli • Manipuri: Anantamul • Marathi: Anant vel • Tamil: Nannari, Sugandipala • Malayalam: Narunenti • Telugu: Suganda pala • Kannada: Sugankha-palada-gidda, Sogade • Oriya: onotomulo • Gujarati: Sariva, Upalasari • Sanskrit: Anantamul, Sariva |
| Plant Family | : | Apocynaceae / Asclepiadaceae |
| Description | : | Branches terete, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves elliptic oblong to linear-lanceolate, 5-10 x 0.8-1.8 cm, acute to obtuse, apiculate, glabrous, sometimes pubescent below. Petiole 3-5 mm long. Pedicels short, covered by numerous imbricating bracts. Calyx c. 2.5 mm long, lobes c. 2 mm long. Corolla 5-6.5 mm long, greenish outside, purple inside, lobes 4-5 mm long. Follicle 10-15 x c. 0.6 cm, tapering to a point. Seeds 6-8.5 mm long, ovate, oblong, flattened, black, coma white, 2.5 cm long. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Among grasses of forest undergrowth, In fields and hedges |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Tonic, The paste of leaves kept in tooth to remove the germs in teeth. Used for urinary diseases. Used in lactation problem. It is used for venereal diseases, herpes, skin diseases, arthritis, rheumatism, gout, epilepsy, insanity, chronic nervous diseases, abdominal distention, intestinal gas, debility, impotence and turbid urine. The root is a valuable alterative, blood purifier, demulcent, diaphoretic, diuretic and tonic. It is used in the treatment of appetite loss, dyspepsia, fever, skin diseases, syphilis, Leucorrhoea, genitourinary diseases and chronic coughs. A paste of the roots is applied externally to swellings and rheumatic joints. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: hexatriacontane; lupeol; octacosanoate; alpha-amyrin; beta-amyrin; sitosterol; hemidesmin I; hemidesmin II; lupanone; lupeol-3-beta-acetate; hexadecanoic acid; hyperoside; rutin; coumarino; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3): Lupeol; Rutin; Alpha-amyrin; |
| 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=Hemidesmus+indicus
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32210
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Sarsaparilla.html
- http://eol.org/pages/2900147/details |
| Reference | : | ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID : ~ Boeing H, Bechthold A, Bub A, Ellinger S, Haller D, Kroke A, Leschik-Bonnet E, Muller MJ, Oberritter H, Schulze M, Stehle P and Watzl B; "Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases"; Eur J Nutr (2012); 51(6): 637-63 PMID : 22684631 ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Omolola Temitope Fatokun, Tosin Ejiro Wojuola, Kevwe Benefit Esievo and Oluyemisi Folashade Kunle; "Medicinal plants used in the management of Asthma: A review"; EJPMR (2016); 3(7): 82-92 PMID : ~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 PMID : ~ 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 : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 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 : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Gentianales |
| Family | : Apocynaceae / Asclepiadaceae |
| Genus | : Hemidesmus |
| Species | : Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R. Br. |