Leucas CEPHALOTES (Roth.) Spreng.
| Synonym : | Leucas capitata Desf. Phlomis cephalotes Roth |
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| Bangla Name : | Bara Halkusha, Dandakolos, Dhrupy. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Lamiaceae |
| Disease : | Stimulant, diaphoretic, scabies, eczema, aperient, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, insecticide, expectorant, administered, cough and colds. |
| Description : | An annual pubescent herb, 0.6-0.9 cm high, stem and branches quadrangular. Leaves 3.8-7.5 cm long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, crenate-serrate, hairy. Flowers sessile, in large, globose, dense, terminal whorls, 2.5-5 cm across, corolla 2 cm long, white. |
| Distribution : | Dhaka, Chittagong and Jessore in fallow lands. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Flowers contain a small quantity of essential oil and an alkaloid. Alcoholic extract of the whole plant contained ?-sitosterol, glycoside of ?-sitosterol and traces of an alkaloid (Ghani, 2003). Seeds contain oil, rich in labellenic acid and its esters |
| Uses : | The plant is stimulant and diaphoretic. The fresh juice is used as an external application in scabies and eczema. The flowers are stimulant, aperient, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, insecticide, expectorant and administered in the form of a syrup as a domestic |
| Habit : | Herb |