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'''Indravaruni''' is a perennial plant with a woody, tuberous rootstock from which grow long trailing or climbing stems. The plant has long been valued for its medicinal uses and is cultivated in some regions for this purpose.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Hypoglycemic}}, {{Uses|Constipation}}, {{Uses|Antifungal and antibacterial}}, {{Uses|Inflammation}}, {{Uses|Larvicidal}}, {{Uses|Cold and cough}}
<ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Roots}}, {{Parts Used|Fruits}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=balibandrakshi, daasamekke, hara mekke kaayi, kaada kavade, kakkavade kaayi|ml=kattuvellari, paikummatti|sa=aindri, atmaraksha, brihadvaruni, brihatphala, chitrala, chitrapala, indravaruni, mrgabojani, mahendravaruni|ta=antimarittan, paitummatti, intiravallarai, intiravaruni|te=chedu putcha kaaya, chittipaapara, paaparabudama, erri puchcha|hi=badi indrayan, chota tarbooj, indrayan|en=colocynth}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
Tikta (Bitter)
===Guna===
Laghu (Light), Rooksha (Dry), Teekshna (Sharp)
===Veerya=Hot)
===Vipaka===
Katu (Pungent)
===Karma===
Pitta, Kapha
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Climber}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|alternate|Tendrils simple, rarely bifid, slender, glabrous. Leaves alternate, elongate-ovate in outline, 10-60 (-110) mm long, 8-55 (-66) mm broad, distinctly scabrid-hairy beneath, smooth except on the nerves above, palmately deeply 3-5-lobed, ultimate lobes pinnately lobulate with central lobe longest, long-ovate in outline; petiole rather densely rough-hairy}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual|axillary|yellow||Male flowers on long pedicels; calyx campanulate, c. 9 (4-8) mm long, lobes c. 5 mm broad; corolla pale yellow, ovate-acute, c. 8 mm long and c. 5 mm broad. Female flowers on longer pedicels than male, receptacle-tube short, lobes lanceolate, c. 5 mm long; ovary hairy, subglobose or obovate.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Pepo|5 cm across|globose, smooth, longitudinally green striped, 5-7 cm in diameter, eipcarp thin, filled with a dry spongy very bitter pulp||seeds numerous, ovate-oblong, yellowish brown, not margined, c. 6 mm long and c. 3 mm broad.}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Citrullus colocynthis 002.JPG
File:Adrar-Coloquintes.jpg
File:Citrullus colocynthis Fruit BotGardBln0906.jpg
File:Citrullus colocynthis - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-040.jpg
File:Citrullus colocynthis 001.JPG
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Uses">[https://www.planetayurveda.com/library/indravaruni-citrullus-colocynthis "Uses"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2, N. Sasidharan "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Vernacular names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* https://easyayurveda.com/2013/01/17/colocynth-citrullus-colocynthis-uses-dosage-side-effects/
* http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Citrullus+colocynthis
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Climber]]
'''Indravaruni''' is a perennial plant with a woody, tuberous rootstock from which grow long trailing or climbing stems. The plant has long been valued for its medicinal uses and is cultivated in some regions for this purpose.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Hypoglycemic}}, {{Uses|Constipation}}, {{Uses|Antifungal and antibacterial}}, {{Uses|Inflammation}}, {{Uses|Larvicidal}}, {{Uses|Cold and cough}}
<ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Roots}}, {{Parts Used|Fruits}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=balibandrakshi, daasamekke, hara mekke kaayi, kaada kavade, kakkavade kaayi|ml=kattuvellari, paikummatti|sa=aindri, atmaraksha, brihadvaruni, brihatphala, chitrala, chitrapala, indravaruni, mrgabojani, mahendravaruni|ta=antimarittan, paitummatti, intiravallarai, intiravaruni|te=chedu putcha kaaya, chittipaapara, paaparabudama, erri puchcha|hi=badi indrayan, chota tarbooj, indrayan|en=colocynth}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
Tikta (Bitter)
===Guna===
Laghu (Light), Rooksha (Dry), Teekshna (Sharp)
===Veerya=Hot)
===Vipaka===
Katu (Pungent)
===Karma===
Pitta, Kapha
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Climber}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|alternate|Tendrils simple, rarely bifid, slender, glabrous. Leaves alternate, elongate-ovate in outline, 10-60 (-110) mm long, 8-55 (-66) mm broad, distinctly scabrid-hairy beneath, smooth except on the nerves above, palmately deeply 3-5-lobed, ultimate lobes pinnately lobulate with central lobe longest, long-ovate in outline; petiole rather densely rough-hairy}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual|axillary|yellow||Male flowers on long pedicels; calyx campanulate, c. 9 (4-8) mm long, lobes c. 5 mm broad; corolla pale yellow, ovate-acute, c. 8 mm long and c. 5 mm broad. Female flowers on longer pedicels than male, receptacle-tube short, lobes lanceolate, c. 5 mm long; ovary hairy, subglobose or obovate.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Pepo|5 cm across|globose, smooth, longitudinally green striped, 5-7 cm in diameter, eipcarp thin, filled with a dry spongy very bitter pulp||seeds numerous, ovate-oblong, yellowish brown, not margined, c. 6 mm long and c. 3 mm broad.}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Citrullus colocynthis 002.JPG
File:Adrar-Coloquintes.jpg
File:Citrullus colocynthis Fruit BotGardBln0906.jpg
File:Citrullus colocynthis - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-040.jpg
File:Citrullus colocynthis 001.JPG
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Uses">[https://www.planetayurveda.com/library/indravaruni-citrullus-colocynthis "Uses"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2, N. Sasidharan "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Vernacular names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* https://easyayurveda.com/2013/01/17/colocynth-citrullus-colocynthis-uses-dosage-side-effects/
* http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Citrullus+colocynthis
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Climber]]
