Botanical name : Clerodendrum viscosum Vent.
Family : Verbenaceae
SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Bhandira
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa : Tikta, Kashaya
Guna : Lakhu, Snigda
Virya : Ushna
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English : Clerodendrum
Hindi : Bhates, Titabhamt.
Malayalam : Periyalam, Peruku
PLANT DESCRIPTION
A large shrub grows up to 2 meters in height with bluntly quadrangular branches. Leaves are large, 10 – 25 cm, ovate, acuminate, entire base cordate, hairy in both sides. Flowers are white, tinged with pink in terminal panicles, fruit are globose drupes, seated on enlarge pink calyx containing 1-4 pyrenes.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated kapha, helminthiasis, abscesses, tumors, skin diseases, hernia, fever, malaria, general debility and rectal prolapse.
Useful part : Leaves, Root.
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