Abelmoschus ESCULENTUS (L.) Moench
| Synonym : | Hibiscus esculentus L. Abelmoschus tuberculatus Pal & Singh Abelmoschus officinalis (DC.) Endl A |
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| Bangla Name : | Dheros, Vendi (Chittagong) ,Lai Long Ma (Murong) |
| English Name : | Lady’s finger, Okra, Gumbo. |
| Family : | Malvaceae |
| Disease : | Fruits are cooling, stomachic, astringent and aphrodisiac, used in chronic dysentery, gonorrhoea, urinary discharges, strangury and diarrhoea. |
| Description : | A tall shrubby annual, covered with rough hairs. Leaves polymorphous, the lower roundish-angled, the upper palmately 3-5-lobed, lobes oblong toothed, hairy on both surfaces, petioles up to 15 cm long. Flowers large, axillary, yellow with crimson centre. Capsule 15-20 cm long, pyramidal-oblong, 5-angled, hispid. |
| Distribution : | Cultivated throughout the country as vegetable. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Petals yield 13 flavanoid glycosides, gossypetin and hibiscetin glucosides. Fresh fruits are rich in pectin and mucilage, it contains oxalic acid, protein, fat, minerals (potassium, sodium, magnesium, sulphur, copper, manganese and iodine), carbohydrate, |
| Uses : | Fruits are cooling, stomachic, astringent and aphrodisiac, used in chronic dysentery, useful in gonorrhoea, urinary discharges, strangury and diarrhoea. Tender pods are employed in the form of decoction as an emollient, demulcent and diuretic and are eate |
| Habit : | Shrub |