Botanical name : Ventilago maderaspatana Gaertn
Family : Rhamnaceae
SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Dinesavalli, Raktavalli
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa : Tikta, Kashaya
Guna : Lakhu
Virya : Ushna
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English : Red creeper
Hindi : Pitti
Malayalam : Vembada, Vempada
Distribution: Throughout India evergreen forests.
PLANT DESCRIPTION
A large, perennial woody climber thick foliage and hanging branches. Leaves simple, alternate, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, obtuse or acute, entire or crenate. base rounded or acute, main nerves 4-8 pairs; flowers greenish with bad odor, found terminal panicles; fruits yellowish globular nuts, supported by the persistent calyx, wing linear-oblong, 1-nerved, rounded at the apex.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated kapha, dyspepsia, colic, flatulence, erysipelas, scabies, general debility fever and other skin diseases.
Useful part : Bark
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