| PlantID | 0027 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Botanical Name | Siegesbeckia orientalis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name | Holy Herb | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Part used | Whole plant | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Properties | Tonic, Aperients. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Use | Protective covering for wounds, burns etc, rheumatism, renal colic, ringworm, syphilis, leprosy, hepatic cirrhosis, various skin diseases, gangrenous ulcers, sialongogue. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chemistry | Essential oil, salicyclic acid and bitter glucoside. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cultivation | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regional Habitat | Frequently occurs in moist and shady places in the forest as an undergrowth of hilly areas. Distribution: Sirohi district of Rajasthan. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Erect, 45-60 cm high herbs. Stem: terete, whitish pubescent, tinged with purple. Leaves: petioles 0.1-2.0 cm long, slightly winged; lamina cuneate at base, ovate, 2.2-9.5 x 0.8-4.8 cm, surfaces pubescent, apex acute, margins toothed; those at the apical nodes ovate-lanceolate, 3-veined at the base, apex acute/acuminate, margins coarsely crenate-dentate. Flowers: capitula 0.5-0.8 cm across; stalk 0.4-1.5 cm long, hispidly hairy; invol. bracts of the outer series 5 in number, linear-clavate, 0.9 x 0.1 cm, spreading; inner ones 5 in number, boat shaped, concave, obtuse, pubescent abaxially; palea 0.4x 0.1 cm, pubescent, often glandular, enfolding the cypsels; ray-florets 5 in number, 0.6 cm long, corolla 0.17 cm long, ligule 0.1 cm long, 3-lobed, yellow; disc-florets 0.15 cm long, corolla 0.15 cm long; anther 0.1 cm long, apical appendages ovate; style 0.15 cm long. Fruits: cypsels blackish-brown, 0.4 cm long, glabrous. Flowers and fruits appears during August-December. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Siegesbeckia orientalis