Melothria HETEROPHYLLA Cogn.
| Synonym : | Zehneria umbellata Thw. |
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| Bangla Name : | Kudari ,Si Mung Thoi (Marma). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Cucurbitaceae |
| Disease : | Spermatorrhoea, restorative purgative and mastitis. |
| Description : | A slender climber with simple tendrils. Leaves 7.5-15 cm long, polymorphous, regularly ovate, or 3-5 angled or lobed, or hastate, acute or acuminate, scabrid above. Male flowers small, yellowish white, subumbellate, 15-20 on a peduncle, female flowers solitary. Fruit 3.8-5 cm long, oblong-ovoid, cylindric, tapering towards the apex, ribbed, bright red when ripe. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong Hill Tracts. |
| Chemical Constituents : | A sterol and a mixture of lignoceric, tricosanoic and behenic acids have been isolated from this plant (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1993). |
| Uses : | The root juice with cumin and sugar is given in cold milk as a remedy for spermatorrhoea. As a restorative and fattening medicine root of this plant along with roasted onion, cumin, sugar and ghee are given, or the root is given only with milk and sugar. |
| Habit : | Climber |