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Easily grown in most soils, preferring a calcareous soil. Thrives in a dry lightly shaded position, though it prefers full sun.Plants usually self-sow quite freely when growing in a suitable position. The seeds are contained in burrs that can easily attach themselves to clothing or animal's fur, thus transporting them to a new area where they can germinate and grow.The cultivar 'Sweet scented' is popular in France for making tea because the whole plant is sweet scented and the flowers have a spicy apricot-like fragrance.
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Malabar Nut


Simhaparni is sanskrit name of Adhatoda Zeylanica Medikus (Botanical Name). Simhaparni commonly known in English as Malabar Nut is a medicinal plant native to Asia, widely used in Siddha Medicine, Ayurvedic, homeopathy and Unani systems of medicine. The plant's range includes Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and China, as well as Panama where it is thought to have been introduced.

Uses

Joint Pain, Cuts, cough, skin itchiness, respiratory disorders, asthma, abnormal bleeding, peptic ulcers, piles

Parts Used

Root, Leaf, Stem, Flower.

Chemical Composition

dhatoda zeylanica contains a number of chemical constituents which are responsible to cure many diseases and disorders. Generally leaves contain more chemicals as pyrroloquinazoline alkaloids, vasicine, vasicol, adhatonine, vasicinone, vasicinolone, vasicinol [1]

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada aadu muttada gida, aadu soge
Hindi adusa, vasak
Malayalam adel-odagam,
Tamil aadaathodai, acalai
Telugu addasaramu, addasarapaku
Marathi NA
Gujarathi NA
Punjabi NA
Kashmiri NA
Sanskrit arus, vajidantakahaatarusha
English


Habit

Shrub

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature
Simple 10-30 cm long Lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, slightly acuminate, base tapering, petiolate, petioles 2-8 cm long, exstipulite, glabrescent

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Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
Unisexual 2-4cm long purpule 5-20 The flowers are hermahrodite. The corolla is large and white with a funnel shaped lower portion, the lower lip of corolla is streaked purpule

Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
somple 7–10 mm (0.28–0.4 in.) long pome The fruit is a small capsule With hooked hairs {{{6}}}

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Seeds, Cuttings.

How to plant/cultivate

A plant of the drier to wet, lowland tropics, where it is found at elevations up to 1,300 metres[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

Himalayans, tropical, malesia, Shri lanka.

Photo Gallery

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References

  1. ↑ "biotechnology pdf"
  2. ↑ "bimbima"
  3. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named How to plant/cultivate

External Links

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