क्षुरः
क्षुरकः
क्षारपत्रं
क्षारवृक्षः
क्षारश्रॆष्ठः
क्षीरवल्ली
क्षीरशुक्ला
क्षीरा
क्षीरी
कुस्तुम्बुरु
कुसुम्भं
कुसुम्भबीजम्
काककङ्गुः
काकॆक्षुः
काकजङ्घा
| Name -
कॊकिलाक्षः
Botanical name -
Asteracantha longifolia
Description -
Phytography : Spinescent herb; fascicled, with many roots at the base of stem; stem 60-50 cm, rusty-green, hispid, quadrangular, pith holed, leaves simple, opposite, subsessile, lanceolate, 7.5-17.0 cm, entire, sparsely hispid with long white hairs, whorls of straight stout spines present at nodes; flowers sessile, mostly in axillary whorls-at times in terminal heads, bracteate and bracteolate, tubular, 2.5 cm, pale blue-purple, nearly glabrous; capsules 0.8 cm, 4- to 8-seeded; seeds like the eye of a cuckoo.
Chemical Constituents-
It contains phytosterol, and Alkaloid, potassium, mucilage and essential oil.
Use -
It is diuretic and cooling. It is used in dropsy, rheumatism, jaundice and diseases of the urinogenital system. The seeds are given in gonorrhoea, Spermatorrhoea and debility.
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