Phyllodium PULCHELLUM (L.) Desv.
| Synonym : | Desmodium pulchellum (L.) Benth. Dicerma pulchellum (L.) DC. Hedysarum pulchellum L. Meibomia pulchella (L.) Kuntze Zornia pulchella (L.) Pers. |
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| Bangla Name : | Jutasalpani. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Fabeceae |
| Disease : | Haemorrhage, diarrhoea, poisoning, eye diseases and biliousness. |
| Description : | A stoutish shrub, 1.2-1.5 m high. Leaves 3-foliolate, 7.5-18 cm long, leaflets ovate-elliptic, obtuse or subacute. Flowers yellow, in axillary or terminal racemes 7.5-25 cm long. Pods 3-6 mm long, indented on both sutures. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Cox’s Bazar, Tangail, Dinajpur, Comilla, Mymensingh, Dhaka. |
| Chemical Constituents : | The plant contains alkaloids, bufotenin and its methyl ether, N, N-dimethyltryptamine and its oxide, two tryptamine derivatives, gramine, 15 indole-3-alkylamine bases of tryptophan, ?-carbolines and several quaternary derivatives. Seeds contain galactoman |
| Uses : | Decoction of the bark is used in haemorrhage, diarrhoea, poisoning and eye diseases. Flowers are used in biliousness. EtOH(50%) extract of the plant is hypotensive and spasmogenic (Asolkar et al.,1992). |
| Habit : | Shrub |