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Premna serratifolia - Ganakasika

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[[File:665px-Premna serratifolia 05.JPG|thumb|right|''Ganakasika'', ''Premna serratifolia'']]
'''Ganakasika''' or '''Premna serratifolia''' is a small tree/shrub in the Verbenaceae family. It flowers and fruits between May and November. During flowering season, it attracts a large number of butterflies and bees.
Premna serratifolia == Description == is a Trees, to 7 m high. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 4–14 mm, slender, pubescent, grooved above; lamina 2.5-8.5 x 2-7.2 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, base acute, obtuse, subcordate or rounded, apex acuminate, mucronate, obtuse, margin entire or subserrate, glabrous above except along the appressed midrib, chartaceous; lateral nerves 3-5 pair, pinnate, prominent, puberulous beneath; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, greenish-white, in terminal corymbose panicled cymes; bracts small; calyx small tree/shrub in campanulate, 2 lipped, 5 lobed; corolla tube short, villous inside, lobes 5; stamens 4, didynamous, inserted below the throat of the Verbenaceae familycorolla tube; anther ovate; ovary superior, 2-4-celled, ovules 4; style linear; stigma shortly bifid. It flowers and fruits between May and November. During flowering seasonFruit a drupe, seated on the calyx, globose, it attracts a large number of butterflies and beespurple; seeds oblong.
'''== Uses'''==
#The leaves and roots are used in traditional medicine as a diuretic, stomachic and febrifuge.<ref name="uses"/>
#The root has a warm bitter taste and agreeable smell, it is prescribed in decoction as a gentle cordial and stomachic in fevers.
#The leaves are used as a galactagogue, and also to treat rheumatic arthritis; colic and flatulence; coughs, headaches and fevers. The leaves,combined with those of morinda citrifolia, are squeezed into water and the solution drunk twice a day to treat severe malarial fevers.A steam bath made from the leaves and young stems is breathed in as a treatment for fevers. The cooled solution is then used to bathe the body.
#The leaves are boiled into medicinal tea that is reputed to have analgesic effects. This home remedy is used mostly in the treatment of backaches.
#A tea made from the boiled bark is used to treat neuralgia.
 
== References ==
 
<references>
<ref name="uses">[http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Premna+serratifolia "Premna serratifolia-Useful Tropical Plants"]</ref>
</references>
 
== External Links ==
 
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premna_serratifolia Premna serratifolia-Wikipedia]
[[Category:Herbs]]
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