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Botanical Name |
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Smilax glabra Roxb. |
English
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Glabrous greebrier rhizome |
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Smilacaceae |
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General Info
Description |
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A climber with smooth stem and branches. Leaves lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptical or narrowly ovate, up to 18 cm long, petiole up to 3 cm long, wings of petiolar sheaths weakly developed, tendrils up to 15 cm long. Umbels solitary. Fruit 5-8 mm in diameter, blue-black at maturity. |
Herb Effects |
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Antiarthritic, antiscrophulatic, depurative and stomachic (rhizome); anthelmintic and antiphlogistic (decoction of rhizome). |
Pharmacology
Medicinal Use |
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Used in the treatment of abscesses, boils, cystitis and diarrhoea (aerial tubers); in the treatment of cancer, mercury poisoning, acute bacterial dysentery, rheumatoid arthritis and syphilis (rhizome); in psoriasis, rheumatism and inflammations (decoction of rhizomes). |
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