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Botanical Name |
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Colchicum luteum Baker |
English
Name |
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Golden Collyrium |
Family |
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Colchicaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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An annual herb. Stem-base below the ground, thickened into a solid, thick, fleshy, gibbously-ovoid corm with dark-brown coats or scales and a longitudinal groove on one side, having 2 daughter-corms, one at the base and other at the top, 15-30 mm x 8-15 mm; leaves few, all radical, 3-5, dark green, linear-oblong or oblanceolate obtuse, appearing with or after flowering; flowers golden yellow, 1-2, on a very short stalk or scape among leaf-sheaths; fruits 2.5-3.8cm long capsules with long recurved beaks, having numerous seeds; seeds brownish-white, globose or irregularly globular, 2-3mm in diam. |
| Herb Effects |
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Antigout (seed and corm); alterative, aphrodisiac, carminative and laxative (corms) |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Colchicine (corm and seed); lutein and luteidine (corm); cornigerine (seed). |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Colchicine |
54192-66-4 |
Not Available |
C22H25NO6 |
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| Lutein |
34445-91-5 |
4-[18-(4-hydroxy-2,6
,6-trimethyl-1-cyclo
hexenyl)-3,7,12,16-t
etramethyl
-octadec
a-1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15
,17-nonaenyl]-3,5,5-
trimethyl-cyclohex-2
-e
n-1-ol |
C40H56O2 |
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| Cornigerine |
78249-43-1 |
Not Available |
C21H21NO6 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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Gout, rheumatism, liver and spleen diseases (corm). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
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