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Botanical Name |
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Sida acuta BURM. F. |
English
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Hornbeam Leaved Sida, Morning mallow |
Synonym(s) |
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Sida carpinifolia L.f., Sida lanceolata Retz. |
Family |
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Malvaceae |
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General Info
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An annual or perennial herb up to 1.5 m tall. Leaves simple, alternate, 1.5 to 7.5 cm long and 0.5 to 2.5 cm wide, lanceolate to linear, apex acute, margins serrate, base subcordate, pinnately veined; petioles 6 mm long, stipules 3 to 9 mm long, linear. Flowers pale yellow to orange, axillary, solitary or clustered of 2 to 3; calyx campanulate, 5 lobed; corolla 12 to 20 cm diameter, petals 9 to 10 mm. Fruits mericarps 5 to 11, 2 awns, 1 to 2 mm long at the apex, glabrous. Seeds dark brown, glabrous. |
| Herb Effects |
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Aphrodisiac, astringent, cooling and tonic (root); antimicrobial, hypotensive and antiarrhythmic (plant). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Cryptolepine and other alkaloids (root and plant) |
| Chemistry
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IUPAC Name |
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| Cryptolepine |
72782-09-3 |
Not Available |
C16H12N2 |
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Pharmacology
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To treat nervous and urinary diseases and disorders of the blood and bile (root). Intensely bitter, it is used as an infusion and in conjunction with ginger to treat intermittent fever; it is also used as a stomachic, to treat chronic bowel complaints, and as an aphrodisiac; as panacea for rheumatism (whole plant).The leaves, warmed and moistened with sesame seed oil, are used to hasten suppuration and painful boils; in haemorrhoids, fevers, impotency, gonorrhea and rheumatism (roots and leaves). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
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