Abelmoschus MOSCHATUS Medik.
| Synonym : | Hibiscus abelmoschus L. Abelmoschus betulifolia wall. Abelmoschus chinensis wall. Abelmoschus cuc |
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| Bangla Name : | Mushakdana, Kalokasturi. ,Fluma Wai (Marma), Purnima gaith (Tonchangya). |
| English Name : | Musk mallow. |
| Family : | Malvaceae |
| Disease : | leucoderma,fevers, gonorrhoea,hoarseness,dysentery. |
| Description : | A tall annual, stem clothed with long hairs. Leaves polymorphous, the lower ovate, acute or roundish-angled, the upper palmately 3-7 lobed, hairy on both surfaces. Flowers large, corolla bell-shaped, yellow with purple centre. Capsules fulvous-hairy, pyramidal-oblong, acute. |
| Distribution : | : Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sylhet and Northern districts in fallow lands and forest outskirts. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Roots, leaves, fruits and seeds contain mucilage. Leaves, flower petals and fruit husk contain ?-sitosterol and its glycosides. Flowers contain flavonoids, myricetin, its glucoside and cannabistrin and petals contain myricetin and its glucoside. Seeds con |
| Uses : | Seeds are cooling, demulcent, diuretic, stimulant, carminative, stomachic, antispasmodic, aphrodisiac and tonic, in the form of paste it is useful in leucoderma, along with milk seed paste is used to cure itch. Infusion, decoction or tincture of the seeds |
| Habit : | Shrub |