Botanical Name : Abutilon indicum
English Name : Indian Mallow, Country mallow, Indian abutilon, Monkey bush
Synonym(s) : Abutilon mauritianum (Jacq.) Medik., Sida indica L.
Family : Malvaceae
English Name : Indian Mallow, Country mallow, Indian abutilon, Monkey bush
Synonym(s) : Abutilon mauritianum (Jacq.) Medik., Sida indica L.
Family : Malvaceae
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).
I have heard about its effective usage in Jaundice.
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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).
I have heard about its effective usage in Jaundice.
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