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Botanical Name |
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Abutilon indicum |
English
Name |
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Indian Mallow, Country mallow, Indian abutilon, Monkey bush |
Synonym(s) |
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Abutilon mauritianum (Jacq.) Medik., Sida indica L. |
Family |
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Malvaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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Indian mallow is an erect, woody plant. It is velvety, shrubby and greyish green in color. It grows up to one and a half meters in length.Stem is round, often tinged with purple color. The leaves are petiolate, ovate to orbicular-cordate, acuminate and toothed. Flowers are borne solitary in long, jointed and axillary pedicels. Calyx lobes divided in the middle, ovate and apiculate. Corolla is yellow or orange-yellow and opens in the evening. Carpels are 15-20 in number.The Fruits are hispid, scarcely longer than the calyx and the awns are erect. Seeds are three to five, kidney-shaped, dark brown or black, tubercled or with minutely stellate hairs. |
| Herb Effects |
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Demulcent, aphrodisiac, laxative, diuretic, pulmonary and sedative (leaves); Astringent and diuretic (bark); Laxative, expectorant and demulcent (seeds); laxative and tonic, promoting the libido and relieving feverishness and producing a felling of coolness, antiinflammatory and anthelmintic (plant); analgesic (fixed oil). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Alantolactone, isoalantolactone and gallic acid (roots), beta-sitosterol and vanillic, P-coumaric, P-hydroxybenzoic, caffeic and fumaric acids (plant); linoleic, oleic, palmitic, stearic and capric acids (fixed oil of root). |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Alantolactone |
80367-94-8 |
Not available |
C15H20O2 |
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| Isoalantolactone |
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| Gallic acid |
149-91-7 |
3,4,5-trihydroxybenz
oic acid |
C7H6O5 |
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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-cyclopenta[a]phe
nanthren-3-ol |
C29H50O |
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| Vanillic acid |
Not Available |
4-hydroxy-3-methoxy-
benzoic acid |
C8H8O4 |
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| p-Coumaric acid |
501-98-4 |
3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)p
rop-2-enoic acid |
C9H8O3 |
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| p-Hydroxybenzoic acid |
99-96-7 |
4-hydroxybenzoic
acid |
C7H6O3 |
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| Caffeic acid |
Not Available |
3-(3,4-dihydroxyphen
yl)prop-2-enoic acid |
C9H8O4 |
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| Fumaric acid |
110-17-8 |
but-2-enedioic acid |
C4H4O4 |
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| Linoleic acid |
8024-22-4 |
Octadeca-9,12-dienoi
c acid |
C18H32O2 |
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| Oleic acid |
8046-01-3 |
octadec-9-enoic acid |
C18H34O2 |
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| Palmitic acid |
66321-94-6 |
hexadecanoic acid |
C16H32O2 |
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| Stearic acid |
82497-27-6 |
Octadecanoic acid |
C18H36O2 |
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| Capric acid |
334-48-5 |
Decanoic acid |
C10H20O2 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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In fevers, chest affections, gonorrhoea and urethritis (infusion of leaves and roots); used as an eyewash and as a mouthwash in toothache, tender gums, in gonorrhoea and for the inflammation of the bladder (leaf decoction); ; to boils and ulcers (flowers); used in piles and coughs (seed decoction); used in relieving strangury, haematuria and leprosy (root infusion). |
| Contraindication |
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Do no use if pregnant |
| Reference |
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 Indian Drugs 1989 Vol. 26, pp. 333.
Phytochemistry 1989 Vol. 28, pp. 3225.
Priya Vrat Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants. |
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