Premna herbacea

Premna herbacea is a low-growing herbaceous perennial plant or a dwarf undershrub with stems up to 15 cm tall. Most of the stem is underground, the plant having a creeping woody rhizome, the above-ground part is slender and simple or with single dichotomous branching. The plant is often harvested from the wild for local medicinal use and occasionally as a food. It is cultivated for medicinal use in India and Sri Lanka.

Uses

Dropsy, Cough, Asthma, Fever, Rheumatism, Cholera.

Parts Used

[[:Category:Herbs with used in medicine|]], stem, leaves, Root.

Chemical Composition

Xanthine oxidase, Sodium nitroprusside, Folin-Ciocalteu reagent, L-ascorbic acid and kojic acid were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich.

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada	Nayit-yaga
Hindi	Bharangi
Malayalam	Cherutekku
Tamil	Sirudekku
Telugu	Nelaneredu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit	Boomi-jambuka
English	Stemless premna

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

Perennial

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature

Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
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Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information

Other features

Mode of Propagation

Seeds

Commonly seen growing in areas

Dry places, Open grasslands.

External Links

• Premna herbacea indiabiodiversity.org
• Premna herbacea efloraofindia