| Synonym : | Buddleja asiaticaLour.
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| Bangla Name : | Budbhota. ,Ada thora (Chakma).Lang Giao (Marma). |
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| English Name : | White butterfly bush. |
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| Family : | Buddlejaceae |
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| Disease : | inflammations. |
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| Description : | A shrub, up to 2 m high, often trichotomously branched. Leaves 12.5 cm long, lanceolate, acuminate entire, crenate or toothed, grey-white beneath, fulvous-tomentose or pubescent beneath. Flower small, white in axillary and terminal often panicled spikes, 5-20 cm long. Capsule 6 mm, ellipsoid.
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| Distribution : | Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sylhet, on the edges of the forest. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Flowers contain quercetin and linarin (Asolkar et al., 1992). |
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| Uses : | Leaves are used as a fomentation in inflammations. Paste prepared from leaves is applied to the forehead during fever by the Chakma in Chittagong Hill Tracts. Roots are used in skin diseases.
EtOH extract of leaves is hypotensive. Essential oil from fl |
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| Habit : | Shrub |
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