| PlantID | 0093 |
| Botanical Name | Premna latifolia |
| Common Name | Arani |
| Classification | | Kingdom: | Plantae | | Subkingdom: | Tracheobionta | | Division: | Magnoliophyta | | Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Subclass: | Asteridae | | Order: | Lamiales | | Family: | Lamiaceae | | Genus: | Premna | | Species: | latifolia |
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| Part used | Roots and leaves. |
| Medicinal Properties | Roots: astringent, bitter acrid, sweet, thermogenic, laxative, febrifuge, anti-inflammatory, cardiotonic and alterant expectorant. Leaves: stomachic, carminative and galactagogue.
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| Medicinal Use | Roots: useful in neuralgia, inflammations, cardiac disorders, cough, asthma, bronchitis. Leaves: useful in dyspepsia, flatulence, colic, agalactia, cough, rheumatalgia, neuralgia, haemorrhoids and tumors.
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| Chemistry | Alkaloids, premnine, ganiarine and ganikarine. |
| Cultivation | NA |
| Regional Habitat | Commonly found in plain areas, throughout Rajasthan. |
| Description | Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets dark brown, striate, pubescent when young, subglabrescent. Leaves: leaf blade ovate-oblong, ovate, subrounded, or cordate, 5-20 X 4-10 cm, Petiole 1-2 cm, yellow pilose; veins 5-8 pairs, reticulate veins obscure. Flowers: bracts linear, 0.1-0.3 cm, deciduous; Calyx 0.2 cm, 5-dentate, outside minutely hirsute, inside glabrous; Corolla dusty yellow, 5-lobed, outside puberulent, villous in throat; Stamens equal or longer than style, exserted; anthers black. Fruit black, tuberculate, glabrous. Flowers and fruits appears during late spring to summer.
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