Cleome VISCOSA L.
| Synonym : | Polanisia viscosa (L.) DC. Arivela viscosa (L.) Raf. Cleome icosandra L. Polanisia microphylla Eichler Sinapistrum viscosum (l.) Moench |
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| Bangla Name : | Hurhuria, Haldehurhurey. |
| English Name : | Wild mustard. |
| Family : | Capparidaceae |
| Disease : | Cooling, stomachic, laxative, diuretic, anthelmintic, skin diseases, itching, ulcers, leprosy, fever, vesicant, pus, fever, paratyphoid, dysentery, bronchitis, gonorrhea, sudorific, earache, diarrhea, carminative, anthelmintic, antiseptic, rubefacient, va |
| Description : | An annual erect herb, 30-90 cm high, densely clothed with glandular hairs. Leaves 3-5 foliolate, leaflets elliptic-oblong or obovate, acute or obtuse, the terminal the largest and reaching 4.3 cm long. Flowers yellow, axillary, growing out into lax racemes. Capsules 5-6.3 cm, erect, hairy, tapering towards the ends. |
| Distribution : | Throughout the country in waste places and fields. |
| Chemical Constituents : | The plant contains eriodictyol-5-rhamnoside, a new glycoflavanone, new maringenin glycoside and the diterpene lactone, cleomeolide. Roots contain kaempferide-3-glucuronide, dihydrokaempferide-3-glucuronide, naringenin galactoside, dihydrorobinetin pyranos |
| Uses : | The plant is cooling, stomachic, laxative, diuretic and anthelmintic, useful in skin diseases, itching, ulcers, leprosy and malarial fever. Leaves are vesicant, applied to boils to prevent the formation of pus, useful in fever, paratyphoid, dysentery, bro |
| Habit : | Herb |