Synonym : | Ipomoea vitifolia Sw. |
Bangla Name : | Ta Mangha, Khyai pacha, Kha Mongno (Marma). |
English Name : | - |
Family : | Convolvulaceae |
Disease : | Strangury , urethral discharges, cooling , diuretic,inflammation and stomachache. |
Description : | A large, glabrous or patently hirsute twiner. Leaves 5-15 cm diam., palmately 5-7 lobed, lobes triangular acuminate, hairy above, young one bronze-coloured. Flowers 1-7 in pedunculate cymes, corolla yellow, sub-campanulate, 2.5-5 cm long. Capsule 1.3 cm diam., subglobose. |
Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts and Sherpur. |
Chemical Constituents : | - |
Uses : | The plant is given in strangury and urethral discharges. The juice of the plant is considered cooling and diuretic. A lep is prepared consisting of the juice of this plant, lime juice, opium and Coptis teea, which is applied around the orbit of the eye in |
Habit : | - |