ब्राह्मणी
ब्राह्मी
बरियारा
बलदा
बला
बलामॊटा
बृहज्जीरक
बृहती
बृहद्बकुलः
बृहदम्लं
बहुपत्रा
बहुपत्रिका
बहुपर्णी
बहुपुष्पी
बहुपादः
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स्पृक्का
Botanical name -
Anisomeles malabarica
Description -
Erect, 1.3-6.0 m tall, branched herb; branches sometimes very stout, densely clothed with snow-white appressed trichomes; leaves opposite, short-petioled, 5-15 cm, basically oblong, very thick; flowers in verticillaster or lax-flowered branched cymes, bracts filiform, teeth very slender; calyx woolly, petals purple; nutlets pale.
Chemical Constituents-
Plant (roots, stems, leaves and flowers) yield essential oil, anisomelic acid, ovatodiolide, diterpenes - malabaric acid, anisomelyl acetate, anisomellol, anisomelolide, crisilineol, betulinic acid and Beta-sitosterol.
Use -
Infusion of leaves used in dyspepsia and fever accompanying teething in children. Decoction of the plant or its essential oil used in rheumatism
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