Euphorbia ANTIQUORUM L.
| Synonym : | Euphorbia antiquorum var. polygona Wight Euphorbia mayuranathanii Croizat Tithymalus antiquorus (L.) Moench |
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| Bangla Name : | Tiktasij, Nerasij, Bojbaran, Sibgach. , Ji Jong Ba (Marma). |
| English Name : | Cactus. |
| Family : | Euphorbiaceae |
| Disease : | Purgative, rheumatism, toothache, nervine diseases, dropsy, whitlow, deafness, amaurosis, warts and dysentery . |
| Description : | A large shrub or small, spinous tree, 4.5-9 m high, with white latex, branches numerous curving upwards, stout, fleshy, green, jointed, with 3-5 wide thick sinuate wings. Leaves small, 6-13 mm long, subsessile, obovate-oblong, fleshy, soon deciduous, stipular spines short, divaricate. Involucres hemispherical, yellow, 3-nate, forming small pedunculate cymes in the sinuses, the central flower sessile, female. |
| Distribution : | Occasionally planted. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Latex present in branches contains ?-amyrin, cycloartenol, euphol, euphadienol and euphorbol. Juice contains diterpene esters, euphorbin. Stem-bark and latex contain triterpenoids, taraxerol and taraxerone, friedelanol and epi-friedelanol, euphol. Roots a |
| Uses : | Latex of the branches is drastic purgative, used in rheumatism, toothache, nervine diseases, dropsy, whitlow, deafness and amaurosis, popular application for warts and other cutaneous affection. Juice of the stem is used to cure earache. Decoction of stem |
| Habit : | Shrub |