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==Uses==
{{Uses|Bleeding disorders}}, {{Uses|Dysentery}}, {{Uses|Wound healing}}, {{Uses|Leucorrhoea}}, {{Uses|Menorrhagia}}
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==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Tuber}}, {{Parts Used|Flowers}}, {{Parts Used|Stems}}, {{Parts Used|Seeds}}
==Chemical Composition==
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==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=neeru thavare|ml=nedel-ambel, chinnambal|sa=|ta=|te=anthara thaamara|hi=kumudini, bara chuli|en=Water snowflake}}
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==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===
Pitta, Kapha
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Aquatic herb}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple||rhizome 2-3 cm thick with prominent branch scars. Primary fertile branches many, petiole-like and uniphyllous, highly variable in length depending on the depth of water; secondary branches sympodial, zig-zag, many-jointed, trailing on water surface; each joint uniphyllous; nodes often rooting. Leaves all cauline, fertile and floating, to about 25 cm across, ovate-orbicular, base deeply cordate with narrow sinuses, entire or subentire, fleshy, glossy green above, pale and gland-dotted beneath ; petiole to 3 cm long.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexial|Umbellate clusters at leaf bases|White|5-8|Flowers bisexual, distylous in umbellate clusters from the junction of the petiole and the branch; bract to 7 x 4 mm, ovate or oblong; pedicel 5-10 cm long. Calyx deeply 5-partite; lobes to 6 x 2 mm, oblong-acute, green with hyaline margins. Corolla white with yellow throat; tube c. 2 mm long; lobes 5, to 13x4 mm, elliptic or oblong, acute, densely covered with long, white hairs within. Stamens as many as corolla lobes, dimorphic; filaments yellow. Ovary bottle- shaped; stigma sinuately 4-8 lobed; disc glands as many as stamens, orbicular. }}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Capsule|||Capsules ellipsoid|Seeds c. 1.5 mm across, discoid, brownish, tubercled.}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
Succeeds in full sun and partial shade. Prefers a rich, sandy loam. Plants grow best when the roots are submerged in 30 - 60cm of water. The plant can spread rather vigorously when growing in areas with warm winters. It has become naturalized in southern Florida. Individual flowers only live for one day. Plantlets are formed at the leaves and can be used for propagation. <ref name="Cultivation details"/>
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}.
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Nymphoides indica (L.) Kuntze (4367590025).jpg|Leaves
File:Nymphoides indica (L.) Kuntze (4368348480).jpg|Leaf and flowers
File:Flower 10.JPG|Flower
File:Nymphoides indica.jpg|Flowers
File:Water Snowflake, Floating hearts(Nymphoides indica) (26019570048).jpg|Buds
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Uses">[http://www.instituteofayurveda.org/plants/plants_detail.php?i=843&s=Local_name Uses]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230507 Botonic description]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/index.php/bot_search Vernacular names]</ref>
<ref name="Cultivation details">[http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Nymphoides+indica Cultivation details]</ref>
<ref name="Chemical Composition">[ Constituents]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Menyanthaceae]]
