Curculigo ORCHIOIDES Gaertn.
| Synonym : | Curculigo malabarica Wight Franquevillea major Zoll. ex Kurz Gethyllis acaulis Blanco Hypoxis dulcis Steud. ex Baker |
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| Bangla Name : | Talamuli, Tali, Kalamusli. ,Saktibinda (Garo). |
| English Name : | Black Musale. |
| Family : | Hypoxidaceae |
| Disease : | Tuberous roots are bitter, aromatic, tonic, alterative, appetizer, demulcent, diuretic, and restorative, useful in bronchitis, ophthalmia, indigestion, lumbago, dyspnoea, gonorrhoea, gleet, dysuria, menorrhagia, leucorrhoea, piles, asthma, jaundice, diarr |
| Description : | A small herb with stout, short or elongate rootstock and copious, fleshy root-fibres. Leaves sessile, 15-45 cm long, linear or linear-lanceolate, plicate. Flowers bright yellow, distichous, in a very short, clavate, flattened scape. Capsule 13 mm long, hypogaeous. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Cox’s Bazar, Nowabganj, Thakurgaon and Dinajpur, in forest floor. |
| Chemical Constituents : | The plant contains flavone glycosides. Tubers contain cycloartane type triterpene glycosides, called curculigo saponins and curculigosides. They also contain phenyl glycosides, orcinol glycoside, corchioside A, hentriacontanol, alkaloid, lycorine. Roots |
| Uses : | Tuberous roots are bitter, aromatic, tonic, alterative, appetizer, demulcent, diuretic, and restorative, useful in bronchitis, ophthalmia, indigestion, lumbago, dyspnoea, gonorrhoea, gleet, dysuria, menorrhagia, leucorrhoea, menstrual derangements, piles, |
| Habit : | Herb |