Desmodium TRIFLORUM (L.) DC.
| Synonym : | Aeschynomene triflora Poir. Desmodium albiflorum Cordem. Meibomia triflora (L.) Kuntze Nicolsonia triflora Griseb. Pleurolobus triflorus J.ST.-Hil. |
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| Bangla Name : | Kulaliya.,Ya Re Sur Sah (Murang). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Fabeceae |
| Disease : | Eye diseases, sores, whitlow, spleen complaints, stomach trouble, colic, diarrhoea, menorrhagia, pain, diarrhoea, dysentery convulsion, wounds and abscesses. |
| Description : | A small perennial trailing herb, 15-45 cm long, branches numerous, prostrate, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets obovate, cuneate, 5-6 mm long. Flowers small, pink, 1-5, fascicled in the axils of the leaves. Pods 10-15 mm long, lower edge indented. |
| Distribution : | All over Bangladesh in fallow lands. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain ?-phenylamine (major), indole-3-acetic acid, tyramine, trigonelline, hypaphorine, its methyl ester, N, N-dimethyl tryptophan methyl ester and S-l-stachydrine. Roots contain 3, 4-di-hydroxy phenylethyl trimethyl ammonium cation, choline and |
| Uses : | Plants are used in blindness, eye diseases, sores, whitlow, spleen complaints, stomach trouble, colic, diarrhoea, menorrhagia and breast pain. Leaves are galactagogue and laxative, remedy for diarrhoea, dysentery and convulsion, applied to wounds and absc |
| Habit : | Herb |