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| Bangla Name : | - |
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| English Name : | Pimpernel, Bird’s Eye, Bird’s Tongue, Shepherd’s Calendar, Weather-glass. |
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| Family : | Primulaceae |
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| Disease : | Diuretic, diaphoretic, expectorant, cures gout, cerebral affections, hydrophobia, pain, leprosy, dropsy, epilepsy, mania and eyesight |
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| Description : | An annual erect or procumbent herb. Leaves sessile, 1.25-3.7 cm, long, opposite, rarely wlorled, ovate, acute, gland-dotted. Flowers, axillary, solitary, blue. Sepals almost equaling the corolla, narrow, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 8-12 mm diam., segments often ciliate. Capsule size of a small pea.
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| Distribution : | North Bengal (Natore, Noabganj) and Khulna Division (Chuadanga, Kustia). |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Aerial parts contain alkaloids, bitter cucurbitacin glycosides, arvenin, I and II and cucurnitacin, B, D and E, sterols, ?-amyrin, rutin, n-hexacosane, lacceric acid, triterpenes anagalligenone, anagalligenin, carbohydrates and enzymes. Aerial parts also |
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| Uses : | The herb is diuretic, diaphoretic and expectorant, cures gout, cerebral affections, hydrophobia, pain in liver and kidney, used in leprosy, dropsy, epilepsy, mania and hepatic and renal complaints. It is antidote to viperine poison, imporves eyesight and |
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| Habit : | Herb |
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