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Viola pilosa

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Viola pilosa is a rather variable, herbaceous perennial plant producing a rosette of leaves and prostrate stems up to 100cm long that root at some nodes. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine, and possibly also as a food.

Uses

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Parts Used

Young leaves, Flowers buds.

Chemical Composition

[2]

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada Bili kaamakasthoori
Hindi Banafsha
Malayalam NA
Tamil NA
Telugu NA
Marathi NA
Gujarathi NA
Punjabi NA
Kashmiri Banafsha
Sanskrit NA
English Smooth-Leaf White Violet


Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

Rasa

Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Habit

Perennial

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature

[3]

Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
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Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Seeds

How to plant/cultivate

Viola pilosa has a wide native range from the warm temperate zone of southern China into the tropics of Thailand and Indonesia (where it is usually found at elevations over 1,000 metres).[4]

Commonly seen growing in areas

Grasslands, Alpine woods, Pathsides.

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References

  1. Indian Medicinal Plants by C.P.Khare
  2. [Chemical constituents]
  3. [Morphology]
  4. Cultivation

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