| PlantID | 0051 |
| Botanical Name | Evolvulus alsinoides |
| Common Name | Shankhpushpi |
| Classification | | Kingdom: | Plantae | | Subkingdom: | Tracheobionta | | Division: | Magnoliophyta | | Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Subclass: | Asteridae | | Order: | Solanales | | Family: | Convolvulaceae | | Genus: | Evolvulus | | Species: | alsinoides |
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| Part used | Whole plant |
| Medicinal Properties | Nootropic agent. |
| Medicinal Use | Useful in chronic bronchitis, general weakness, fever, nervous debility, loss of memmory, syphilis and scrofula. It is used as Rasayan.
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| Chemistry | Alkaloid, shankhapushpine. Fresh plant contains volatile oil and potassium chloride. It also contains yellow neutral fat, an organic acid, saline substances, evolvine and betaine.
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| Cultivation | NA |
| Regional Habitat | It is a common weed, growing wildly in open grassy places. |
| Description | A perennial herb with prostrate branches. Leaves: small elliptic to oblong, lanceolate, obtuse, mucronte. Flowers: mostly solitary in upper axils, corolla blue, rotate and broad funnel shaped, capsule globose.
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