| PlantID | 0078 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Botanical Name | Cotula anthemoides | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name | Babuna | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Part used | Roots, flowers and oil. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Properties | Roots: stimulant, carminative and tonic. Flowers: aphrodisiac, carminative, diaphoretic and diuretic. Oil: aphrodisiac and analgesic. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Use | Flowers: enriches blood gonorrhoea, ophthalmia, headache, chest pain and scabies. Oil: useful in all pains. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chemistry | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cultivation | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regional Habitat | Frequently occurs in moist and shady places along river banks, nalla's and tanks. Distribution: Ganganagar, churu, alwar, jaipur and bhilwara districts of Rajasthan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Diffuse, branched, glabrous herb. Leaves: 0.8-2.8 cm long, 1-2 pinnatisect, surfaces glabrous, segments linear to linear-lanceolate, pointed or 1-2-teeth towards the apex, apical leaves simple. Flowers: capitula is solitary, terminal on the filiform stalk. Invol. bracts 2-seriate, oblong, glabrous. Ray florets: 1-2 seriate, pappus absent, corolla yellow, tubular, 2-3-toothed at the apex, style bifid, cypsels oblong, tapering below, sparsely glandular-pubescent, brownish. Disc-florets: 10-20 in center, fertile, corolla campanulate, tube 0.025 cm long, lobes 4, acute, anthers 0.05 cm long, filament as long as anthers, apical appendages ovate, cypsels oblong, broadly winged, sparsely glandular. Flowers and fruits appears during December to April. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Cotula anthemoides