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Dicoma tomentosa

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Dicoma tomentosa is an erect, annual plant, sometimes living for more than one year. It can grow up to 1 metre tall. It native to dry fields and sandy arid places of Senegal to N Nigeria and extending to NE Africa and into Asia.

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Chemical Composition

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Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

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Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

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Prabhava

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Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature

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Flower

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Fruit

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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 lowland areas in the drier regions of the tropics and subtropics, where it is found at elevations below 800 metres.[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

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References

  1. [Chemistry]
  2. [Morphology]
  3. Cultivation

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