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Caltha palustris

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Caltha palustris is a herbaceous perennial plant. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and sometimes as a food. It is grown as an ornamental in gardens, where it can be used to make a ground cover.

Uses

Fits, Anaemia, Colds, Sores, Pain in the abdomen, Vomiting, Headache, Singing in ears, Dysuria, Diarrhoea.

Parts Used

Roots, Flower buds, leaves, Root.

Chemical Composition

[1]

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit
English Marsh Marigold, Cowflock


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

[2]

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

[[:Category:Index of Plants which can be propagated by |]]

How to plant/cultivate

A plant of the waterside, it prefers growing in a sunny position in wet soils or shallow water up to 15cm deep.[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

Wet areas in marshes, Fens, Ditches, Wet alder woods, Rare on very base poor peat.

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References

  1. ["chemistry"]
  2. ["morphology"]
  3. [Cultivation]

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