Tylophora indica (BURM.F.) MERRILL. |
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Botanical Name |
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Tylophora indica (BURM.F.) MERRILL. |
English
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Indian Ipecacuanha |
Synonym(s) |
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Asclepias asthmatica L. f., Cynanchum bracteatum Thunb., Cynacanum indicum Burm. f., Hoya hirsuta Moon, Tylophora asthmatica (L.f.) Wight & Arn. |
Family |
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Asclepiadaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A branching climber or shrub up to 1.5 m tall. Leaves ovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, base rounded, apex acute, base rounded 3 to 10 cm long and 1.5 to 7 cm wide, thick, glabrous above and pubescent beneath; petioles 0.5 to 2.0 cm long. Flowers greenish-yellow outside, purplish within, borne in umbel-like cymes. Fruits follicles, fusiform, divaricate, striate, attenuate towards the tip. Seeds broadly ovate, elongated with 2 to 2.5 cm long coma. |
| Herb Effects |
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The root has stimulant, alternative, antirheumatic properties; antiinflammatory (plant); diaphoretic, emetic and expectorant, antiallergic (leaf); anticancer (stem and leaf). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Tylophorine, tylophorinine and kaempferol (plant); various alkaloids (leaf);including tylophoridinidine (root). |
| Chemistry
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CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Tylophorine |
Not Available |
Not Available |
C24H27NO4 |
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| Kaempferol |
80714-53-0 |
3-[3-[4,5-dihydroxy-
6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-
[3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-
(hydroxyme
thyl)oxa
n-2-yl]oxy-oxan-2-yl
]oxy-4,5-dihydroxy-6
-(hydroxymethyl)oxan
-2
-yl]oxy-4,5-dihy
droxy-2-(4-hydroxyph
enyl)-chromen-7-one |
C33H40O21 |
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| Tylophorinine |
Not Available |
Not Available |
C23H25NO4 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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In rheumatism, asthma, whooping cough, bronchitis and dysentery (root); in hydrophobia (leaf and root). Used for treating whooping cough, for reducing lochia, malarial fever, jaundice. They are used to treat diarrhoea and dysentery. |
| Contraindication |
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Should not be used by children, pregnant or nursing women, or individuals with severe kidney or liver disease. |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants. |
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