Cardiospermum halicacabum L. |
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Botanical Name |
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Cardiospermum halicacabum L. |
English
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Baloon Vine and Love-in-a-Puff |
Synonym(s) |
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Rhodiola biternata Lour., Cardiospermum microcarpum Kunth. |
Family |
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Sapindaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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An annual or perennial climber up to 3.5 m tall. Leaves alternate, deltoid, biterate, 3 to 8 cm long, petioles 2 to 3.8 cm long, leaflets rhomboid-lanceolate. Flowers white, 3 to 4 mm long, in few flowered umbellate cymes, with a pair of peduncles modified into tendrils. Fruit capsules, depressed pyriform, 3 valved, covered with bladder like calyx, winged at the angles. Seeds globose, black, smooth, 4 to 6 mm, heart-shaped aril. |
| Herb Effects |
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Diaphoretic, diuretic, emetic, emmenagogue, laxative, refrigerant, rubefacient, stomachic, antiinflammatory, antibacterial and inhibits heart activity in dogs subjected to anesthesia (seed); laxative and emetic (root). |
Chemistry
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Fatty acids and esters (seed oil), alkaloids (seed), a saponin (plant). |
Pharmacology
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Pain and rheumatism (plant paste); earache, rheumatism, as a poultice on swellings (leaf), lowers blood pressure, to treat stomach diseases, rat-poisoning, snake-poisoning, cough with fever, scrotal enlargement, alopecia, anaemia and jaundice. |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
Priya Vrat Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.
Uniyal et al., Medicinal Flora of Garhwal Himalayas.
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