Grangea MADERESPATANA (L.) Poir.
| Synonym : | Grangea hispida Humbert Grangea adansonii Cass. Cotula maderaspatana (L.) Willd. Artemisia maderaspatana L. Tanacetum aegyptiacum Juss. ex Jacq. |
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| Bangla Name : | Namuti (Beng.). |
| English Name : | Madras Worm-wood. |
| Family : | Asteraceae |
| Disease : | Antipyretic, stomachic, antispasmodic, deobstruent, menses , hysteria,cough,diuretic, anthelmintic, emmenagogue, galactagogue, astringent, stimulant,paralysis, rheumatism , piles and pain. |
| Description : | A prostrate annual herb, branches spreading from the centre, forming patches 15 to 30 cm wide. Leaves sessile, 2.5-6.3 cm long, sinuately pinnatifid, lobes smaller towards the base. Flowers very small, yellow in globose heads, solitary or 2-nate, on short leaf-opposed peduncles. |
| Distribution : | Throughout Bangladesh in fallow lands. |
| Chemical Constituents : | The plant contains diterpenoid compounds of labdane and clerodatetrean type, such as the analgesic constituentent-15, 16-epoxy-7-hydroxy-3, 13, 14-clerodatrien-18-oic acid, steroids, chondrillasterone and chondrillasterol, diterpene, strictic acid, a phen |
| Uses : | The herb is antipyretic. Leaves are stomachic, antispasmodic and deobstruent, prescribed in infusion and electuary in cases of obstructed menses and hysteria, also used in preparing antiseptic and anodyne fomentations. A decoction of the roasted leaves is |
| Habit : | Herb |