Oxalis CORNICULATA L.
| Synonym : | Acetosella corniculata (L.) Kuntze Oxalis minima Steud. Xanthoxalis albicans (Kunth) Small |
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| Bangla Name : | Amrul, Amboli, Chukatripati. ,Mring blu, Pa Su (Marma), Amilani (Chakma), Sap Ann Khur (Bawm). |
| English Name : | Wood-sorrel, Indian Sorrel. |
| Family : | Oxalidaceae |
| Disease : | Cooling, antiseptic, astringent, appetiser ,antiscorbutic, fevers , biliousness, , scurvy, piles, anaemia , tympanites and dysentery. |
| Description : | A small creeping herb, stems rooting. Leaves palmately 3-foliolate, with very long, slender petiols, leaflets 1.2-2.5 cm long, obcordate cuneate. Flowers axillary, subumbellate on solitary long peduncles, petals 6-9 mm long, yellow, oblong, rounded, emerginate. Capsules 2 cm long, linear-oblong, 5-angled. All parts of the plant sour. |
| Distribution : | Throughout Bangladesh in fallow lands. |
| Chemical Constituents : | The plant has an acrid taste because of the presence of acid potassium oxalate. It contains appreciable quantities of ascorbic, dehydro-ascorbic, glyoxalic and phosphoric acids and is rich in calcium. It also contains tartaric, citric and malic acids and |
| Uses : | The plant is cooling, antiseptic, astringent, appetiser and antiscorbutic, useful in fevers and biliousness, juice of the plant cures scurvy, piles, anaemia and tympanites, also relieves the intoxication produced by Datura. Expressed juice made into a she |
| Habit : | Herb |