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Lactuca serriola, prickly lettuce

Lactuca serriola is an annual or biennial plant in the dandelion tribe within the daisy family. It has a slightly fetid odor and is commonly considered a weed of orchards, roadsides and field crops. Lactuca serriola is known as the compass plant because in the Sun the upper leaves twist round to hold their margins upright.Western ghats

Uses

Cardiac paralysis, Chronic catarrh, Coughs, Swollen liver, Flatulence, Urinary tract, Ailments.

Parts Used

Leaves.

Chemical Composition

Acetylcholine chloride, atropine sulfate, carbachol, dicyclomine, dimethylsulfoxide, ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid, glucose^[1]

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi	NA
Gujarathi	NA
Punjabi	NA
Kashmiri	NA
Sanskrit
English	Wild Lettuce, Lettuce Opium

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

Herb

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature
Simple		lobed or unlobed but not separated into leaflets and Leaf arrangement is alternate

^[2]

Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
Unisexual	2-4cm long	blue to purple, and yellow	5-20	the flower head has ray flowers only, meaning all of the individual flowers of the flower head have a strap-shaped ray

Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information
Simple	7–10	at least a part of the plume is made up of fine bristles	Tuft or plume on fruit	many	{{{6}}}

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

Seeds.

How to plant/cultivate

Prefers a light sandy loam in a sunny position^[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

Roadsides, Waste places.

Photo Gallery

A Torà (Segarra - Catalunya)
A Torà (Segarra - Catalunya)
A Torà (Segarra - Catalunya)
A Torà (Segarra - Catalunya)
flowers
close up of 1 flower
cluster of buds
plant

References

External Links

[chemical_composition-1] "Chemicals"

[Leaf-2] "plant charecteristics"

[How_to_plant.2Fcultivate-3] "Cultivation details"

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-'''Lactuca serriola''' is an annual or biennial plant in the dandelion tribe within the daisy family. It has a slightly fetid odor and is commonly considered a weed of orchards, roadsides and field crops. Lactuca serriola is known as the compass plant because in the Sun the upper leaves twist round to hold their margins upright.[[Western ghat]]
+'''Lactuca serriola''' is an annual or biennial plant in the dandelion tribe within the daisy family. It has a slightly fetid odor and is commonly considered a weed of orchards, roadsides and field crops. Lactuca serriola is known as the compass plant because in the Sun the upper leaves twist round to hold their margins upright.[[Western ghats]]
 ==Uses==