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Viburnum nervosum

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Viburnum nervosum is a deciduous shrub to small tree that can grow up to 6 metres tall. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of materials.

Uses

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Parts Used

Fruits, Seeds.

Chemical Composition

Extensive chromatographic separation and purification of the chloroform soluble fraction of the anti-malarial plant, Viburnum grandiflorum afforded six known compounds namely, 3-hydroxy-4,7-megastigmadiene-9-one (1), β-sitosterol (2), awabukinol (3), 1-oxo-erythrodiol (4), lupeol (5) and 10-acetylpatrinoside (6) etc.[2]

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit
English


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

Deciduous Tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature

[3]

Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
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Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Seeds, Cuttings of soft-wood, Cuttings of mature wood, Air layering.

How to plant/cultivate

Viburnum nervosum favours areas of higher rainfall in the Himalayan forests of Nepal, Uttar Pradesh and westwards to southwest China and Myanmar, where it can be found at elevations up to 4,500 metres.[4]

Commonly seen growing in areas

Roadsides.

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References

  1. Indian Medicinal Plants by C.P.Khare
  2. Chemical constituents
  3. [Morphology]
  4. Cultivation

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