Commelina PALUDOSA Bl.
| Synonym : | Commelina obliqua Buch.-Ham. Commelina donii A.Dietr. Commelina paludosa f. pedunculata Qaiser & Jafri |
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| Bangla Name : | Jatakanchira(Bangla),Bat boitta shak (Chakma). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Commelinaceae |
| Disease : | Refrigerant, laxative, strangury, costiveness, vertigo, fevers, bilious affections and dysentery. |
| Description : | Stout, branched, glabrous herb, 60-100 cm tall. Leaves 4-22 cm long, lanceolate or elliptic, acute or caudate-acuminate. Flowers blue, in a sessile or subsessile spathe, 2-2.5 cm long and as broad as long. Capsule 5 mm, trigonous, obovoid. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Dhaka, Sylhet, in shady places. |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | The plant is refrigerant and laxative, useful in strangury and costiveness. The root is useful in vertigo, fevers and bilious affections. The leaf juice is taken by Chakmas for the treatment of dysentery. EtOH (50%) extract of plant is hypotensive, CNS |
| Habit : | Herb |