Ferula foetida (Bunge) Regel
| Synonym : | Ferula scorodosma Bentley & Trimen Scorodosma foetidum Bunge |
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| Family : | Apiaceae |
| Disease : | Cirorhosis, Flatulence, gout, hyper acidity, rheumatism. |
| Description : | Plants 8–40 cm high from a basal rosette. Taproot fusiform with fibrous roots. Stem green. Basal leaves numerous; petiole short or obsolete, sheath up to 3 cm; blade lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire,venation pinnately reticulate, base cuneate to decurrent, apex obtuse, callous-margined, crenate to finely spinulose-serrate. Upper leaves sessile, opposite deeply spinulose-serrate to parted. Inflorescence divaricately trifurcate; lateral branches often continuing to form a monochasium, heads numerous, short-pedunculate. Flower heads cylindrical, 5–12 × 3–5 mm; bracts 4–7, foliaceous, lanceolate, 1.5–3.5 × 0.4–1 cm, spreading to reflexed, margin 1–3-spinulose-serrate; bracteoles lanceolate, 1.5–1.8 × ca. 0.6 mm, brightly scarious-margined. Calyx teeth ovate-lanceolate, 0.5–1 mm, acute, equaling petals.Petals white or pale yellow. Styles erect, ca. 1.1 mm, exceeding calyx teeth. Fruit ovoid-globose, 1.1–1.3 mm, covered with tubercles. Fl. and fr. Apr–Dec. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Luteolin and its compound. Essential oil, ferulic acid, organic sulphur compound, pinene, isobutyl propanyl disulphide and umbeliferone. |
| Uses : | This plant is used in Cirorhosis, Flatulence, gout, hyper acidity, rheumatism. |
| Habit : | Herb |