Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx. |
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Botanical Name |
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Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx. |
English
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Capeweed, Creeping lip plant, Frog-fruit, Frog's bit, Licorice verbena, Turkey tangle fogfruit |
Synonym(s) |
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Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene, Verbena capitata Forsk., Verbena nodiflora Linn., Lippia repens Spreng. |
Family |
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Verbenaceae |
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General Info
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A creeping, minutely strigose herb. Stems extending from 15 to 30 centimeters, are much branched and root at the nodes. Leaves are numerous, nearly without stalks, obovate, and 1 to 2.5 centimeters long, with blunt or rounded tip and wedge-shaped base; the margins on the upper half are sharply toothed. Flowers are small, pink or white, crowded in ovoid or cylindric spikes, 1 to 2.5 centimeters long, and about 3 millimeters long, consists of a slender, cylindric tube and a limb 2.5 millimeters wide or less. It opens at the apex, as it lengthens. Spikes appear at the ends of stalks which grow singly from the axils of the leaves. |
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Anodyne, antibacterial, deobstruent, diuretic, emmenagogue, febrifuge, parasiticide and refrigerant (plant) |
Pharmacology
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The plant is used as a demulcent in gonorrhea. An infusion of plant is useful in the febrile stage of colds, and as a diuretic useful in lithiasis. A poultice composed of the fresh plant is a good maturant for boils, to swollen cervical glands, to erysipelas, and to chronic indolent ulcers. |
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