Blumea BALSAMIFERA DC
| Synonym : | Baccharis salvia Lour. Blumea grandis Dc. Conyza balsamifera L. Pluchea balsamifera (L.) Less. |
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| Bangla Name : | - |
| English Name : | Nagal Camphor |
| Family : | Asteraceae |
| Disease : | Stomachic, antispasmodic, emmenagogue, antiseptic, expectorant, leucorrhoea, diarrhoea, cholera, bronchitis, rheumatism and headache. |
| Description : | A small tree-like shrub, all softer parts densely appressed-villous. Leaves 10-20 cm long, coriaceous, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, thickly silky-villous, serrate, narrowed into a usually auricled short petiole. Flower-heads 6-8 mm, in large spreading or pyramidal, terminal, tomentose panicles. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong and Chittaging Hill Tracts. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contains 2 quercetin derives (Asolkar et al., 1992). |
| Uses : | Leaves are stomachic, antispasmodic, emmenagogue, antiseptic and expectorant, used in leucorrhoea, diarrhoea, cholera. A warm infusion of the leaf is a pleasant sudorific, excellent diaphoretic in bronchitis. As fumigation it is much used in rheumatism an |
| Habit : | Shrub |