| Synonym : | M. stricta L.
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| Bangla Name : | Julpapra, Khetpapra. |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Molluginaceae |
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| Disease : | Stomachic, emmenagogue, aperients, antiseptic, , sore legs, menstrual discharge and earache. |
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| Description : | A small, glabrous, annual herb, 15-30 cm high. Leaves small, 1.3-3.8 cm long, in whorls of 2-9, linear-lanceolate to obovate, obtuse or acute. Flowers small, white, numerous in lax, corymbose, terminal cymes, peduncles and pedicels filiform. Capsules minute, subglobose. |
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| Distribution : | Throughout Bangladesh in fallow lands. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Aerial parts contain an antifungal triterpenoids saponin, mollugogenol A and inactive triterpenoids, mollugogenol B and other saponins (Ghani, 2003). |
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| Uses : | Plant is stomachic, emmenagogue, aperient and antiseptic, used in poultices for sore legs. Infusion of the plant is given to women to promote the menstrual discharge. Leaves are bitter and antiperiodic, used after warming to relieve earache. |
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| Habit : | Herb |
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