Glinus OPPOSITIFOLIUS (L.) A. DC.
| Synonym : | Mollugo spergula L. Mollugo oppositifolia L. Glinus denticulatus (Guill. & Perr.) Fenzl Glinus spergula (L.) Steud. Glinus mollugo Fenzl |
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| Bangla Name : | Gima, Gima-sak, Jima. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Molluginaceae |
| Disease : | Stomachic, aperients,antiseptic,skin diseases depressant and diuretic. |
| Description : | A diffuse prostrate, annual herb, stems slender, numerous, dichotomously branched. Leaves 13-22 mm long, in whorls of 4-5, unequal, oblanceolate or linear-lanceolate or sometimes spathulate. Flowers small, white, in axillary fascicles of 2 or more, with long filiform pedicels. Capsules ellipsoid, a little shorter than the sepals. |
| Distribution : | Throughout the country in moist fallow and cultivated fields and walls |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain spergulagenic acid, a saturated triterpenoid sapogenin, spergulagenin A and a tri-hydroxy ketone. Roots contain a glycoside, mollugo glycoside A. ?-Spinasterol and ?-sitosterol glucoside, bis-nortriterpene sapogenol, spergulatriol, spergula |
| Uses : | The plant is stomachic, aperient and antiseptic, used in skin diseases and for suppression of the lochia. Warmed herb moistened with castor oil is a good cure for earache. The juice is applied to itch and other skin diseases. EtOH(50%) extract of plant |
| Habit : | Herb |