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Periyalam


Name: Periyalam
Filename: Clerodendrum_viscosum.jpg
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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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