Capparis ZEYLANICA L.
| Synonym : | Capparis crassifolia Kurz Capparis horrida L.f. Capparis quadriflora Dc. Capparis terniflora Dc. |
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| Bangla Name : | Asarilata, Asaria, Kalokera, Kalukoan, Baganoi. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Capparidaceae |
| Disease : | Sedative, cooling, cholagogue, stomachic, antihidrotic, cholera, boils, swellings, piles and rheumatism. |
| Description : | Description of the plant: A rigid, climbing, much-branched shrub, young parts clothed with rufous tomentum. Leaves 2.5-7.5 cm long, elliptic, oblong, obtuse, acute or retuse, stipular spines hooked. Flowers supra-axillary, solitary or 2-3, one above the other in a vertical line, the upper the longest. Sepals 9 mm long, densely rufous-pubescent outside, petals twice as long as the sepals, densely villous. Fruit subglobose, 3.2 cm across. |
| Distribution : | Dhaka, Chittagong, Patuakhali, Maheshkhali, Madhupur. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves and seeds contain thioglucosides, glucocapparin, n-tricontane, ?-and ?-amyrin, an alkaloid, a phytosterol, a mucilaginous substance and a water-soluble acid, capric acid. The seeds contain fixed oil (Ghani, 2003). |
| Uses : | Root bark is sedative, cooling, cholagogue, stomachic and antihidrotic, along with spirit given in cholera. Leaves are used as a counter irritant and as a cataplasm in boils, swellings, piles and rheumatism. Flowers are used as laxative. |
| Habit : | Shrub |