Jatropha GOSSYPIFOLIA L.
| Synonym : | Adenoropium gossypiifolium (L.) Pohl Jatropha elegans Kl. Jatropha jacquinii Baill. Manihot gossypiifolia (L.) Crantz |
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| Bangla Name : | Lal Bheranda, Laljeol, Erenda. ,Karachuni (Marma), Kander (Garo). |
| English Name : | Bellyache-bush. |
| Family : | Euphorbiaceae |
| Disease : | Emmenagogue,purgative,boils,carbuncles,eczema itches, dysentery, purgative, emetic,skin diseases, rheumatism and paralytic affections |
| Description : | A small deciduous shrub with sucullent stem, 1-1.5 m tall. Leaves palmately 3-5 lobed, purple, petiole clothed with numerous stipitate glands. Flowers small, red in terminal corymbose cymes. Fruit a capsule, about 1.3 cm across. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Dhaka and other districts, by the road sides and fallow lands. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain flavonoids, a saponin, a resin, tannin and triterpenes. They also contain flavonoids, vitexin, isovitexin and apigenin. Seeds contain fatty oil. Roots contain antileukemic and tumour-inhibitor macrocyclic diterpene, jatrophone and jatrophol |
| Uses : | A decoction of the bark is used as an emmenagogue. The leaves are purgative, applied to boils, carbuncles, eczema and itches. Sap exudates taken from leaf petiole is mixed with molasses and given to cure dysentery. Seeds are drastic purgative and emetic, |
| Habit : | Shrub |