Botanical name : Hemigraphis colorata Blume
Family : Acanthaceae
SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Vranaropani
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa : Tikta, Madhura
Guna : Lakhu, Seeta
Virya : Seeta
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English :
Hindi :
Malayalam : Murikooti, Muriyan pacha
Distribution – Growing naturally throughout India, along roadsides and wastelands.
PLANT DESCRIPTION
This is a tropical showy species grown in dense evergreen forests. A prostrate herb with rooting branches. Leaf opposite, broad, cordate and toothed, 6 to 10 cm long and sparkling silvery violet underneath red purple. Flowers pale white, solitary, terminal or sometimes axillary. Fruits small indehiscent pods, containing numerous small seeds. Reproduction is usually vegetative manner, by stem cuttings.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated pitta, fresh wound, cuts, ulcers, inflammation and in folk medicines, it is used internally for anemia.
Useful part : Leaf, or whole plant.
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