| PlantID | 0034 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Botanical Name | Hedyotis biflora | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name | Damanpapra | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Part used | Whole plant | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Properties | Alterative, Febrifuge, Anthelmintic. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Use | Useful in gastric irritability, nervous depression, liver complaints and fever. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chemistry | Whole Plant: 13 amino acids, potassium, sodium and chloride ions. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cultivation | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regional Habitat | Distribution: Kota district of Rajasthan. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Prostrate to erect, glabrous, upto 45 cm high herbs, branches 4-angled. Leaves: stipules truncate, bristles few; petiolate; lamina narrowed at base, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, surfaces glabrous, apex acute or obtuse, margins entire. Flowers: borne in terminal or paniculate cymes or in the apical leaf axils, 4-merous, pedicelled. Flowers: calyx- lobes deltoid; corolla- white, tube short, lobes triangular, acute. Fruits: capsules 4-angled, turbinate 0.2-0.3 cm long, acute. Flowers and fruits appears during August-December. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Hedyotis biflora