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Botanical Name |
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Cleome viscosa L. |
English
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Wild Mustard and Asian Spider-Flower |
Synonym(s) |
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Polanisia viscosa ((L.)DC.), Cleome isocandra, L., Polanisia isocandra (L.) Wight & Arn. |
Family |
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Capparaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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An erect, simple annual herb up to 1.5 m tall. Leaves 3 to 5 foliate, densely glandular-pubescent, petioles 2.5 to 5 cm long, base cuneate, apex acute. Flowers shades of yellow or white to pinkish, 1.3 cm long, borne in axils of leaf-like bracts in lax corymbose racemes. Fruit erect glandular pubescent capsule, 5 to 12 cm. Seeds 1 mm diameter, glandular, black or dark brown. |
| Herb Effects |
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Diaphoretic, rubefacient and vesicant (leaves); blistering and rubefacient (seed and leaf); anthelmintic, carminative, rubefacient and vesicant (seeds); rubifacient, vesicant, sudorific and antifungal properties (leaves); irritant, acrid, rubifacient and vesicant (bark). |
Chemistry
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Cleosandrin, cleomiscosin and 7-phenoxycoumarin (seed); cleomeolide (leaf). |
| Chemistry
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| Cleomeolide |
72188-81-9 |
Not Available |
C20H30O3 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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Bronchitis and gonorrhea (plant); ear infections (leaf juice); an external application to wounds and ulcers, in treating oedema, inflammation in the ear, treat piles, splenic and liver disorders and syphilis (leaves). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
Uniyal et al., Medicinal Flora of Garhwal Himalayas.
Perumal Samy R. Ignacimuthu S. Raja DP. Preliminary screening of ethnomedicinal plants from India. J Ethnopharmacol 1999. |
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