| Synonym : | Gumira esculenta (Roxb.) Kuntze
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| Bangla Name : | Lalana (B), Lelom pada (Chakma), Kramuk kai-fung (Chak),,Kamrah, Kramu-rauh (Marma.), Un Adehye Nah (Bawm), Kasobu (Murang). |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Verbenaceae |
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| Disease : | Diuretic , dropsy,urinary problems, jaundice and tonic. |
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| Description : | A short stemmed branching shrub. Leaves opposite, 10-20 cm long, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrate, base cuneate. Flowers small, yellowish white, in dense, globose corymbs at the end of the branchlets. Fruits drupaceous, globose about 2 cm across, purplish.
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| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | - |
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| Uses : | The leaves are diuretic and applied externally in dropsy. In Chittagong Hill Tracts the leaves are cooked in curries, root paste is taken with fermented rice water for urinary problems, it also expels stones from urinary tracts. The leaves are one of the |
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| Habit : | Shrub |
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