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| Bangla Name : | Ban Methi, Kureta, Urusia, Bite (Rema-Kalenga). ,Oak khi pane, Eng Balo Lang (Marma), Morong (Tipra), Baitali (Garo). |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Malvaceae |
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| Disease : | Astringent, tonic, stomachic, diaphoretic, antipyretic, cooling, nervous,urinary diseases, disorders of blood, bile, diuretic, rheumatic, gonorrhoea, dysentery, fever, chronic bowel complaints Warmed , abscess, dysentery and diarrhea. |
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| Description : | An annual woody much-branched undershrub, branches slender, terete. Leaves 2.5-6.3 cm long, lanceolate, with rounded base, sharply serrate. Flowers 1-2 in each axils, calyx 6-8 mm long, lobes triangular, corolla yellow, nearly twice as long as the calyx. Fruit 5-6 mm diam., carpels 5-9. |
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| Distribution : | Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka and other part of the country in fallow lands. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Aerial parts, roots and seeds contain a number of alkaloids, including ephedrine as the major one. They also contain cryphtolepine, ?-phenethylamines, quinazoline, carboxylated tryptamines, choline and betarine and alkanes, pristine, phytane, rentiraconta |
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| Uses : | Roots are astringent, tonic, stomachic, diaphoretic, antipyretic and cooling, useful in nervous and urinary diseases and disorders of blood and bile. It is valued as diuretic, especially in rheumatic affections and as demulcent in gonorrhoea and chronic d |
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| Habit : | Under shrub |
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