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Botanical Name |
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Barleria prionitis L. |
English
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Barleria, Lobed needle grass |
Family |
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Acanthaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A much-branched, usually prickly shrub up to 3 m tall, with whitish stems and rounded branches. Leaves opposite, elliptic, acuminate, lineolate, bristle-tipped, entire, 9-18 cm long and 2.5 to 5.7 cm wide, glabrous above, young leaves often pubescent beneath. Flowers orange-yellow or cream-coloured, sessile, borne in axillary foliaceous bristle-tipped bracts. Fruits ovoid, 1.8 to 2.5 cm long with a tapering beak, 2-seeded. |
| Herb Effects |
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Induces perspiration (bark juice); antiseptic (plant); expectorant (bark juice). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Barlerin and acetylbarlerin (leaf and stem); scutellarein-7-neohesperidoside (flower). |
Pharmacology
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As an expectorant (bark juice) and in catarrh (of children) (plant juice); in whooping cough and bronchitis (plant decoction); for wounds (leaf). as a poultice to promote healing of wounds and to relieve rheumatic pains, scabies and itches (crushed leaves); as a gargle to relieve toothache (leaf decoction). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
Uniyal et al., Medicinal Flora of Garhwal Himalayas.
Chen JL, Blanc P, Stoddart CA, Bogan M, Rozhon EJ, Parkinson N, Ye Z, Cooper R, Balick M, Nanakorn W, Kernan MR. J Nat Prod. 1998 Oct;61(10):1295-7. |
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