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'''Drimia maritima''' or '''Red squill'''(syn. Urginea maritima) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (formerly the family Hyacinthaceae). This species is known by several common names, including squill, sea squill, sea onion, and maritime squill.<ref name="common names"/> It may also be called red squill, particularly a form which produces red-tinged flowers instead of white. It is native to southern Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa.

== Description Uses== This plant grows from a large bulb which can be up to 20 cm (7.9 in) wide and weigh 1 kg (2.2 lb). Several bulbs may grow in a clump and are usually just beneath the surface of the soil. In the spring{{Uses|Wounds}}, {{Uses|Cuts}}, {{Uses|Snakebites}}, {{Uses|Curing liver disorders}}, {{Uses|Skin eruptions}}, each bulb produces a rosette of about ten leaves each up to a meter long. They are dark green in color and leathery in texture. They die away by fall{{Uses|Blotches}}, when the bulb produces a tall{{Uses|Pimples}}, narrow raceme of flowers. This inflorescence can reach 1.5–2 m (4 ft 11 in–6 ft 7 in) in height. The flower is about 1.5 cm (0.59 in) wide and has six tepals each with a dark stripe down the middle. The tepals are white{{Uses|Diarrhea}}, with the exception of those on the red-flowered form. The fruit is a capsule up to 1.2 cm (0.47 in) long.{{Uses|Sore throats}}

== Uses Parts Used== *The plant has been used as a poison and as a medicinal remedy. The main active compounds are cardiac glycosides{{Parts Used|Bulb}}, including unique bufadienolides such as glucoscillarene A, proscillaridine A, scillarene A{{Parts Used|cut into slices}}, scilliglaucoside and scilliphaeoside.*Its primary medicinal use was as a treatment for edema, then called dropsy, because of the diuretic properties of the cardiac glycosides.<ref name="uses"/>*The plant is also used as a laxative and an expectorant.<ref name="uses2"/>*The tall inflorescences are used as {{Parts Used|cut flowers in floristry.into slices}}

==Common Chemical Composition==The three bitter glucosidal substances Scillitoxin, Scillipicrin and Scillin<ref name=="chemical composition"/>

== References 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=={{Habit|Herb}} ==Identification=====Leaf==={{Leaf|Simple||The leaves are divided into 3-6 toothed leaflets, with smaller leaflets in between} ===Flower==={{Flower|Unisexual|2-4cm long|Yellow|5-20|Flowers Season is June - August}} ===Fruit==={{Fruit|simple|7–10 mm|clearly grooved lengthwise, Lowest hooked hairs aligned towards crown|With hooked hairs|}} ===Other features=== ==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==* [[Vishatinduka Taila]] as ''root juice extract'' ==Where to get the saplings====Mode of Propagation=={{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings}}. ==How to plant/cultivate==Succeeds in ordinary garden soil according to one report, whilst another says that it requires a very free draining gritty or sandy soil in full sun<referencesref name="How to plant/cultivate"/> ==Commonly seen growing in areas=={{Commonly seen|Tall grasslands}}, {{Commonly seen|meadows}}, {{Commonly seen|Borders of forests and fields}}. ==Photo Gallery==<ref namegallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="common names140px">[httpsFile:Odermennig.jpgFile:Agrimonia eupatoria02.jpgImage://npgswebAgrimonia eupatoria MHNT.BOT.ars-grin2004.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail0.aspx?400663 "Drimia maritima"]jpg</refgallery> ==References== <references><ref name="useschemical composition">[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nihbotanical.govcom/pmcbotanical/articlesmgmh/PMC1749406s/pdf/bullnyacadmed00173-0030squill86.pdf Squill in ancient and medieval materia medica, with special reference to its employment for dropsyhtml "Constituents"]</ref>   <ref name="uses2How to plant/cultivate">[https://web.archive.org/web/20131029185447/http://www.kewpfaf.org/plants-fungiuser/Drimia-maritimaPlant.htm Drimia aspx?LatinName=Urginea+maritima (maritime squill)"Cultivation details"]</ref>

== External Links ==* [http://www.public.asu.edu/~camartin/plants/Plant%20html%20files/urgineamaritima.html Drimia maritima on public.asu.aduaction]*[https://enransomnaturals.wikipediacom/plant-of-the-month-july-2014-squill/ Drimia maritima on ransom naturals]* [http://powo.science.kew.org/wikitaxon/Drimia_maritima urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:534538-1 Drimia maritima-Wikipediaon plants of the word online]