Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal - withania
Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal - withania
Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal - withania
Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal - withania
Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal - withania
MS136 : Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Physalis somnifera L.;
Withania kansuensis Kuang & A. M. Lu;
Withania microphysalis Suess; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Ashwagandhaa, Hayagandhaa, Ashwakanda, Gandharvagandhaa, Turaga, Turagagandhaa, Turangagandhaa, Vaajigandhaa, Gokarnaa, Vrishaa, Varaahakarni, Varadaa, Balyaa, Vaajikari, Indian ginseng, poison gooseberry, or winter cherry |
| Plant Family | : | Solanaceae |
| Description | : | An evergreen, erect, branching, tomentose herb, 30-150 cm in height. Leaves are simple, ovate, glabrous, and up to 10 cm long. Flowers are greenish or lurid
yellow, small about 1 cm long; few flowers (usually about 5) born together in axillary, umbellate cymes (short axillary clusters). Fruits are globose berries, 6 mm in diameter, orange red when mature, enclosed in the inflated and membranous persistent calyx. Seeds are yellow, reniform and 2.5 mm in diameter. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In dense forests of Semadoh and Gugamal ranges. |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | asthma, bronchitis, inflammatory diseases, ulcer and stomach problems; sedative, polyarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, lumbago, painful swellings, spermatorrhoea, leucoderma, general debility, sexual debility, amnesia, ulcers, leucorrhoea; general tonic; |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Hentriacontane; dulcitol; withaniol; Withaferin A; cuscohygrine; anahygrine; tropine; pseudotropine; anaferine; isopelletierine; withananine; withananinine; pseudo-withanine; somnine;
somniferine; somniferinine; 3-tropyltigloate; withanine; withasomnine; visamine; Withanoside IV; Withaphysacarpin; Melanin; Lespedezaflavanone B; tropine; cuscohygrine; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5): Withanoside IV; Withaphysacarpin; Withaferin A; Melanin; Lespedezaflavanone B; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID : ~ Bilal Ahmad Mir, Jabeena Khazir, Nisar A. Mir, Tanvir-ul Hasan and Sushma Koul; "Botanical, chemical and pharmacological review of Withania somnifera (Indian ginseng): an ayurvedic medicinal plant"; Indian Journal of Drugs and Diseases (2012); 1(6): 147-160 PMID : ~ Rishu Kalra and Nutan Kaushik; "Withania somnifera (Linn.) Dunal: a review of chemical and pharmacological diversity"; Phytochemistry Reviews (2017); 16(5): 953-987 PMID : ~ Narendra Singh, Mohit Bhalla, Prashanti de Jager and Marilena Gilca; "AN OVERVIEW ON ASHWAGANDHA: A RASAYANA (REJUVENATOR) OF AYURVEDA "; Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. (2011); 8(S):208-213 PMID : 22754076 ~ Anisha Bano, Navdeep Sharma, Harcharan S. Dhaliwal and Vivek Sharma; "A Systematic and Comprehensive Review on Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal- An Indian Ginseng"; British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (2015); 7(2): 63-75 PMID : ~ Vivek K. Vyas, Pratik Bhandari and Radheshyam Patidar ; "A Comprehensive Review on Withania somnifera Dunal"; Journal of Natural Remedies (2011); 11(1): 1-13 PMID : ~ AHM Mahmudur Rahman; "A Review on Medicinal Plants with Anticancer Activity Available In Bangladesh"; Mod Appl Pharm Pharmacol (2018); 1(4). MAPP.000516 PMID : ~ Avni G. Desai, Ghulam N. Qazi, Ramesh K. Ganju, Mahmoud El-Tamer, Jaswant Singh, Ajit K. Saxena, Yashbir S. Bedi, Subhash C. Taneja, and Hari K. Bhat; "Medicinal Plants and Cancer Chemoprevention"; Curr Drug Metab. (2008); 9(7): 581–591 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 | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Solanales |
| Family | : Solanaceae - Potato family |
| Genus | : Withania Pauquy - withania |
| Species | : Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal - withania |