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Botanical Name |
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Echinops echinatus ROXB. |
English
Name |
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Camel's Thistle |
Family |
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Asteraceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A rigid, pubescent, annual herb up to 1 m tall, with branches widely spreading from the base. Leaves alternate, sessile, oblong, pinnatifid, covered with cottony wool beneath, the lobes triangular and oblong, simuate and spiny, the spines often 2.5 cm long. Flower heads white or purple, compact, globose, clustered at the ends of branches; involucres surrounded by strong white bristles resembling pappus-hairs; pappus short, yellowish, forming a short cylindrical brush above the achene. |
| Herb Effects |
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Aromatic, bitter, nervine tonic, alterative, diuretic, aphrodisiac and lowers blood sugar (root); increases nerve strength (plant). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Beta-amyrin, lupeol, hentriacontanol and hentriacontane (plant); betulinic acid (flower) |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| beta-Amyrin |
559-70-6 |
4,4,6a,6b,8a,11,11,1
4b-octamethyl-1,2,3,
4a,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,1
2a,14,14a-
tetradec
ahydropicen-3-ol |
C30H50O |
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| Lupeol |
Not Available |
Not Available |
C30H50O |
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| Hentriacontane |
630-04-6 |
hentriacontane |
C31H64 |
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| Betulinic acid |
4481-62-3 |
Not Available |
C30H46O3 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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Cough suppressant,as a tonic for increasing nerve strength and in indigestion, premature ejaculation and scrofula (plant); in diabetes (root). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
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