Elephantopus SCABER L.
| Synonym : | Elephantopus carolinensis G.Mey. Elephantopus scaber var. scaber Elephantopus sordidus Salisb. Scabiosa cochinchinensis Lour. |
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| Bangla Name : | Gojialata, Shamdalan, Gejiashak. ,Sangkhate, Sangkhala, Pru Suang (Marma), Hatichada (Chakma), Marmai (Murong). |
| English Name : | Prickly Leaved Elephant’s Foot, Elephant’s Foot. |
| Family : | Asteraceae |
| Disease : | Griping, inflammations, bronchitis, pills , menorrhagia, fever, piles, ulcers, eczema, dysuria, diarrhoea and dysentery, rheumatism and dysentery. |
| Description : | Erect herb, up to 38 cm high, rootstock short, giving off many stout fibrous roots. Leaves 12.5-20 cm long, mostly radical forming a spreading rosette on the ground, obovate-oblong, coarsely serrate-dentate, hairy. Heads numerous, sessile, closely packed, forming a large flat-topped terminal inflorescence, nearly 2.5 cm across, and surrounded at the base by three large, broadly ovate, leafy bract. Flowers small, violet. |
| Distribution : | Forest of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Dhaka, Tangail and Cox’s Bazer. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Plant contains a germancranolide, elephantopin and two quinic acid esters (4,5-dicaffeoyl quinic acid and 3,5-dicaffeoyl quinic acid) which are aldose reductase inhibitors (Ghani, 2003). Epifriedelinol, lupeol, stigmasterol and a mixture of triacontan-1-o |
| Uses : | The herb is diuretic, laxative, analgesic, alterative, ferbrifuge, cardiac and brain tonic, used in griping, inflammations and bronchitis. Paste of the whole herb with Scoparia dulcis is made into pills and given in the treatment of menorrhagia by the Mar |
| Habit : | Herb |