Cissampelos PAREIRA L. Var. hirsuta (Buch. ex Dc.) Forman
| Synonym : | Cissampelos hirsuta Buch.-Ham.ex DC. Cissampelos auriculata Miers Cissampelos reticulata Borhidi Cissampelos tomentosa Dc. Cyclea madagascariensis Baill. |
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| Bangla Name : | Akanadi, Nemuka, Nimuka. |
| English Name : | False Pareira brava, Velvet-leaf. |
| Family : | Menispermaceae |
| Disease : | Pain, fever, dysentery, skin eruptions, heart troubles, burning, itching, vomiting, asthma, intestinal worms, ulcers, piles, urine complaints, itch, sores, sinuses, stomachic, diuretic, emmenagogue, antipyretic, tonic, expectorant, alexiteric, inflammati |
| Description : | A climber. Leaves peltate, 3.8-10 cm diam., orbicular or reniform, cordate or truncate at the base, mucronate, with long petiole. Flowers minute, yellowish. Male flowers pedicelled in nearly axillary cymes. Female flowers in elongate, solitary or twin axillary racemes. Drupe subglobose, compressed, hairy, red. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Dhaka, Moulvi Bazar, Sylhet, Pabna, Tangail, inforests. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Root bark contains in its aqueous extract 11 quaternary alkaloids, including menismine, cissamine, pareirine, d-isochondrodendrine, l-bebeerine, hayatine, and hayatinine. Roots contain l- curine, cissamine chloride, alkaloids, dicentrine, its dihydro deri |
| Uses : | The plant is used in pain, fever, dysentery, skin eruptions, heart troubles, burning, itching, vomiting and asthma, removes intestinal worms, cures enlarged spleen and ulcers, useful in piles and urine complaints. Leaf extract is applied externally to itc |
| Habit : | Climber |