Crinum viviparum (Lam.) R.Ansari & V.J.Nair
| Synonym : | Amaryllis vivipara Lam. Crinum defixum Ker Gawl. Crinum ensifolium Roxb. Crinum roxburghii Dalzell & A.Gibson |
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| Bangla Name : | Sukh-darshan, Bonpiaz. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Amaryllidaceae |
| Disease : | Emollient, emetic, nausant and diaphoretic |
| Description : | A large bulbous herb. Leaves 60-90 cm long, linear, obtuse or acute. Flowers white, 6-15 in an umbel at the end of a cylindric 45-75 cm scape, corolla tube 6.3-12.5 cm long, slender, cylindric, lobes as long as the tube, narrowly linear-lanceolate, subacute, reflexed or drooping, filaments shorter than the corolla-lobes. Fruit subglobose, 2.5 cm diam. |
| Distribution : | In fallow lands of Chittagong and Sylhet. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Bulbs and seeds contain lycorine (Rastogi and Mehrotra, 1993). |
| Uses : | Bulb is emollient and emetic, in small doses it is a nausant and diaphoretic. The bulb and stolon are very much used for the treatment of burns, whitlow, and carbuncle. In otitis a few drops of juice of the leaves are instilled in to the ear. In Rema Kale |
| Habit : | Herb |