| Synonym : | Pogostemon parviflorus Benth.
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| Bangla Name : | Nugpachuli (B),Nung bui (Marma). |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Lamiaceae |
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| Disease : | Tonic, colic, fever and haemorrhoids. |
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| Description : | Suffruticose shrub, 1.2-1.8 m high, stem and branches obtusely quadrangular, usually purple. Leaves 7.5-18 cm long, broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, coarsely and irregularly doubly-toothed, base cuneate. Flowers in dense pubescent spikes, forming pyramidal lax panicles. Corolla white, stamens exerted, filaments purple except just below the anthers, bearded with purple hairs. |
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| Distribution : | Sylhet, Chittagong, also cultivated in the jhum of Chittagong Hill Tracts. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | The plant contains an essential oil comprising mainly of the sesquiterpenes patchoulol (35%) and bulnesene. It also contains an alkaloid, pogostemonine, a secocaryophyllanolide sesquiterpenoids lactone, epoxyparvinolide, trimethyl amine, resin, friedelin, |
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| Uses : | The properties are more or less same as those of P. benghalense (no. 574). The plant is given alone or along with Ocimum gratissimum as a tonic for strength, after delivery. Fresh leaves are used in colic, fever and snake-bite and to clean wound. Roots ar |
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| Habit : | Shrub |
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