| PlantID | 0115 |
| Botanical Name | Pedalium murex |
| Common Name | Gokhru-big |
| Classification | | Kingdom: | Plantae | | Subkingdom: | Tracheobionta | | Division: | Magnoliophyta | | Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Subclass: | Asteridae | | Order: | Lamiales | | Family: | Pedaliaceae | | Genus: | Pedalium | | Species: | murex |
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| Part used | Seeds and leaves. |
| Medicinal Properties | Plant is sweet, cooling, mucilaginous, diuretic, lithontriptic, aphrodisiac, antispasmodic, emmenagogue, anti-inflammatory, digestive, carminative, tonic and rejuvenating. |
| Medicinal Use | This plant is useful in strangyr, renal and vesical calculi, aphthae, puerperal diseases, spermatorrhoea, spasmodic affections, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, inflammation, splenomegaly, dyspepsia, flatulence, ulcers, fever and general debility. |
| Chemistry | Alkaloid, greenish fatty oil, resin. |
| Cultivation | NA |
| Regional Habitat | Throughout Rajasthan. |
| Description | A succulent herb, grows upto 38 cm in height, very well branched, foetid smelling and also has rough slime secreting glands. Leaves: simple, opposite, somewhat fleshy, broadly ovate-oblong, coarsely crenate-serrate or sublobate, glabrous above and minute scales on the lower side. Flowers: bright yellow, axillary and solitary. Fruits: blunty 4-angled with stout, sharp, conical horizontal spines from the angles. |
| Image | Sorry no image found |
