Clerodendrum INDICUM (L.) Kuntze.
| Synonym : | Clerodendrum siphonanthus R. Br. Clerodendrum longicolle G.Mey. Clerodendrum mite (L.) Vatke Ovieda mitis L. Siphonanthus indicus L. |
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| Bangla Name : | Bamunhatti, Banchat, Chokphutra. ,Nalibaong (Marma), Noligach (Chakma), Bamus gach (Garo). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Verbenaceae |
| Disease : | Fever, atrophy, consumption, cough, bronchitis, blindness, vermifuge, tonic, herpetic eruption and pemphigus, rheumatism, asthma, cough, scrofulous and asthma. |
| Description : | A slender, tall shrub, 1.2-3.6 m high, little-branched. Leaves 15-23 cm long, oblong, in whorls of 3-5. Flowers white, 7.5-10 cm long, in lax usually 3-flowered cymes in the axils of the upper leaves forming a long terminal panicles. Fruit 1.3 cm across, dark bluish green when ripe, seated on the enlarged red calyx. |
| Distribution : | Occurs in the fallow lands throughout the country. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain flavonoids, scutellarein, hispidulin and their 7-O-glucuronides and also sterol. Stems contain resin, cholesterol and ?-sitosterol. Flowers contain ?-sitosterol, hydroquinone, uncinatone and flavones pectolinarigenin and cirsimaritin. Bark |
| Uses : | The plant is used in fever, atrophy, consumption, cough, bronchitis and blindness. Leaves are used as vermifuge and tonic. Juice of the leaves and tender branches is used with ghi, as an application to herpetic eruption and pemphigus. A resin obtained fro |
| Habit : | Shrub |