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Botanical Name |
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Ichnocarpus frutescens |
English
Name |
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Black Creeper, Black Creeper, Sarsaparilla, Sariva, Kalisar, Dudhilata, Sugandhi, Honduras sarsaparilla, red sarsaparilla, Spanish sarsaparilla, Tu fu ling, Dwipautra |
Synonym(s) |
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Apocymene frutescens L., Echites frutscens (L.) Roxb. |
Family |
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Apocynaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A large, evergreen, much-branched woody climber with rusty-tomentose branches. Leaves opposite, elliptic-oblong to broadly lanceolate, 2.5 to 10 cm long and 1.2 to 5 cm wide, coriaceous, softly tomentose beneath and glabrous above, pubescent when young, apex acute, base rounded or obtuse; petioles 0.3 to 0.8 cm long. Flowers fragrant, greenish-white or purplish, corolla lobes narrow, twisted and beared, borne in axillary or terminal panicles of cymose clusters. Fruits (follicles), cylindrical, slender, curved, usually paired, 10 to 15 cm long and 4 cm wide, rusty-pubescent at first, later glabrous. Seeds slender, white with a coma, 1.2 to 1.7 cm long. |
| Herb Effects |
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Demulcent, alterative, tonic, diaphoretic, diuretic antiviral (plant); antipyretic (root, leaf and stalk); purifies blood (root). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Beta-sitosterol, friedelin, friedelinol, lupeol acetate and oleanolic acid (plant); amyrin glycoside (aerial part). |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Beta-sitosterol |
5779-62-4 |
17-(5-ethyl-6-methyl
-heptan-2-yl)-10,13-
dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9
,11,12,14,
15,16,17
-dodecahydro-1H-cycl
openta[a]phenanthren
-3-ol |
C29H50O |
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| Friedelin |
559-74-0 |
4,4a,6a,6b,8a,11,11,
14a-octamethyl-2,4,5
,6,6a,7,8,9,10,12,12
a,13,14,14
b-tetrad
ecahydro-1H-picen-3-
one |
C30H50O |
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| Friedelinol |
5085-72-3 |
4,4a,6a,6b,8a,11,11,
14a-octamethyl-1,2,3
,4,5,6,6a,7,8,9,10,1
2,12a,13,1
4,14b-he
xadecahydropicen-3-o
l |
C30H52O |
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| Lupeol acetate |
Not Available |
Not Available |
C32H52O2 |
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| Oleanolic acid |
508-02-1 |
10-hydroxy-2,2,6a,6b
,9,9,12a-heptamethyl
-1,3,4,5,6,6a,7,8,8a
,10,11,12,
13,14b-t
etradecahydropicene-
4a-carboxylic acid |
C30H48O3 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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Syphilis, indigestion, skin diseases and as a blood purifier (root); reducing fever (root, leaf and stalk). The root powder, administered with milk, is used in the treatment of diabetes, gall bladder stones, and as a blood purifier. A decoction of the leaves and stalks, or of the roots and leaves is used to treat fevers. |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
Uniyalet al., Medicinal Flora of Garhwal Himalayas. |
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