Tylophora INDICA (Burm.f.) Merr.
| Synonym : | Tylophora asthmatica W. & A. Cynanchum indicum Burm.f. |
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| Bangla Name : | Antamul. |
| English Name : | Emetic Swallow-wort, Indian Ipecacuanha, Country Ipecacuanha. |
| Family : | Asclepiadaceae |
| Disease : | cough, asthma, bronchitis, stimulant, cathartic, emetic, stomachic, diarrhoea, rheumatism, pains, dysentery and diaphoretic properties. |
| Description : | A slender twining perennial, stem not much branched. Leaves 5-10 cm long, ovate or elliptic-oblong, acute or acuminate, base usually cordate. Flowers small, greenish-yellow in umbellate cymes, peduncles from between the petioles. Fruit a follicle, 7.5-10 cm long, tapering to a fine point at the apex. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Tangail, Cox’s Bazar. Comilla. Khulna. Patuakhali. |
| Chemical Constituents : | The plant contains a good number of phenanthroindolizidine alkaloids, including tylophorine, tylophorinine, tylophorinidine and septicine. It also contains cetyl alcohol, a phytosterol, wax, resin, coutchone, pigments, glucose, mineral salts, tannins, tet |
| Uses : | The roots and leaves are mostly used as expectorant for the treatment of cough, asthma, and bronchitis and experimentally found true of their expectorant properties. These also possess stimulant, cathartic, emetic, stomachic and diaphoretic properties, us |
| Habit : | Herb |