| PlantID | 0094 |
| Botanical Name | Paederia foetida |
| Common Name | Bakuchi, Gandhali |
| Classification | | Kingdom: | Plantae | | Subkingdom: | Tracheobionta | | Division: | Magnoliophyta | | Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Subclass: | Asteridae | | Order: | Gentianales | | Family: | Rubiaceae | | Genus: | Paederia | | Species: | foetida |
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| Part used | Whole plant, fresh leaves and seed. |
| Medicinal Properties | Whole plant: aphrodisiac, tonic and laxative. Leaves: antidysenteric, laxative and tonic. Seeds: alexiphormic. |
| Medicinal Use | Whole plant: used in inflammations, piles, fever, eye and night blindness, rheumatic affections. Leaves: used in the bacillary dysentery. Decoction of the leaves is also used in treating urinary lithiasis, dysuria, rheumatism, dyspepsia, gastritis and enteritis.Seeds: useful in piles and leucoderma. |
| Chemistry | Leaves: essential oil, alkaloids a-paederine and b-paederine. |
| Cultivation | NA |
| Regional Habitat | Grows wildly. Distribution: Udaipur district of Rajasthan. |
| Description | Perennial climbing plant. Leaves: opposite, margins entire, purple beneath, inflorescence in axillary cyme. Flowers: small, white with pale-violet spots. Fruits: sub-ovoid, slightly compressed glabrous, reddish. Seeds: compressed. The whole plant is covered with pubescence. It has a fetid smell when crushed. Flowers appears during October-January and fruits appears during November-April. |
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