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Anisomeles malabarica - Alamoola

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Alamoola, Anisomeles malabarica

Malabar catmint is an aromatic, perennial plant with woolly stems, growing from 50 - 150cm tall. The stems often become woody and persist. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use in traditional medicine.

Uses

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Parts Used

Chemical Composition

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Common names

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

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature
Simple Opposite Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3.6-16 x 1.3-7 cm, narrowed and rounded at base, acute, crenate-serrate, slightly bullate and velvety lanate above, densely so beneath; petioles 0.7-3.5 cm long, stout, lanate.

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Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
Bisexual Terminal racemes Pink 4 Racemes to 34.5 cm long; verticils close, dense; peduncles densely lanate. Floral leaves 8-10 mm long, densely lanate. Bracts linear, to 5 mm long. Calyx to 9 mm long; tube to 5 mm long, lanate without, glabrous within; lobes lanceolate, to 4 mm long, acuminate. Corolla 1.4-2 cm long; tube to 9 mm long, white, glabrous without; throat pilose towards base of lower lip; Upper lip oblong, 4-6 mm long, obtuse at apex, slightly arched, whitish; lower lip to 1 cm across, coral pink, with 2 white streaks towards base, pilulose without with gland-tipped hairs, the lateral lobes shallowly rounded, the median one larger, broadly orbicular, 2-fid. Style glabrous; branches linear, unequal.

Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
Nutlets Nutlets ovoid, 2.5 x 1.5 mm, trigonous, glabrous, blackish-brown and shining.

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

How to plant/cultivate

A plant of the lowland tropics, growing in areas where there are distinct wet and dry seasons, flowering in the rainy season. Grows well in open, sandy waste locations.[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

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