Botanical name : Plumbago zeylanica Linn.

Family : Plumbaginaceae

SANSKRIT SYNONYMS

Chitraka, Agni, Dahana

AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES

Rasa : Katu

Guna : Lakhu, Rooksha, Teekshna

Virya : Ushna

PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

English : Leadwort, White leadwort, Fire plant

Hindi : Chitra, Chita

Malayalam : Koduveli, Vellakkoduveli

Distribution – Throughout India in moist places; growing wild.

PLANT DESCRIPTION

A pretty perennial shrub with semi woody stems and numerous branches. Leaves simple alternate, oblong-lanceolate and acute; flower white in long terminal spikes. Roots are cylindrical irregularly bent having transverse shallow fissures at bents.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Plant pacifies vitiated vata, kapha, diarrhea, inflammation, fever, nervous palsy, hemorrhoids, skin diseases, irritable bowel disease, ammenorrhoea and anemia.

Useful part : Roots