Baliospermum solanifolium (BURM.) SURESH


Synonym : Baliospermum montanum (Willd.) Muell.- Arg.
Baliospermum angulare Decne. Ex Baill.
Baliospermum indicum Decne.
Croton roxburghii Wall.
Jatropha montana Willd.
Ricinus montanus (Willd.) Wall.
Bangla Name : Dandi, Danti. ,Tung Kra Mon, Kon Kru, Naicro (Marma), Barmoth, Mongkhal (Garo).
English Name : -
Family : Euphorbiaceae
Disease : Purgative, dropsy, jaundice, rheumatism, asthma, cure scabies, stomach pain.
Description : A slender, erect undershrub, 1-2 m high, branching from the root, Leaves scabrid, sinulate-toothed, the upper small lanceolate, 5-7.7 cm, the lower large, 15-30 cm, ovate, often palmately 3-5 lobed. Flowers in numerous axillary racemes or contracted panicles. Capsules 8-15 mm long, obovoid three 2-valved crustaceous cocci.
Distribution : Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Rangpur, Sylhet, Rajshahi, in fallow lands and village thickets.
Chemical Constituents : Roots yield phorbol esters belonging to diterpenoid hydrocarbon, tigliane skeleton viz., montanin, balisopermin, 12-deoxyphorbol and 12-deoxy-16-hydroxyphorbol as 13-palmitates, 12-deoxy-5 ?-hydroxy-phorbol as 13-myristate, esters and other diterpenes (Gh
Uses : Roots and seeds are used as purgative. It is also used in dropsy and jaundice. Seed oil applied externally in rheumatism. Decoction of the leaves is used in asthma. Marma tribe use to take bath with leaf-boil water to cure scabies. Garo of Madhupur use ro
Habit : Shrub