| Synonym : | Lindenbergia urticaefolia Lehm.
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| Bangla Name : | Basanti, Haldi Basanti. |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Scrophulariaceae |
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| Disease : | Bronchitis and skin disease. |
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| Description : | An annual, small, erect herb, 15-50 cm high. Leaves 2-5 cm long, ovate, subacute, crenate-serrate, usually glandular-villous. Flowers yellow, solitary or 2-nate in the axils of large leaves, sometimes running out into axillary or terminal leafy racemes, corolla yellow, 1.3 cm long, 2-lipped. Capsules oblong, 5 mm long. |
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| Distribution : | All over the country on damp, old walls. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Various parts of the plant contain a large number of long-chain hydrocarbons, ?-sitosterol, ?-sitosterol palmitate, ?-sitosterol- ?-D-glucoside, mannitol and apigenin (Ghani, 2003). |
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| Uses : | Juice of the plant is given in chronic bronchitis and mixed with coriander plant applied to skin eruptions. |
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| Habit : | Herb |
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