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Botanical Name:
Clerodendrum serratum (Linn.)
Bharangi consists of dried roots of Clerodendrum serratum
(Linn.) Moon, Family Verbenaceae
Common Name (s) in English & Indian Languages
Sanskrit: Angaravalli, Brahmanayastika
Bengali: Bamun Hatee, Baman hatee, Bhuijam
English: Blue-flowered Glory tree, Beetle Killer
Guajarati: Bharangee
Hindi: Bharangee
Kannada: Gantubarangee
Malayalam: Cheruteku
Marathi: Bharangee, Bharang
Oriya: Chinds
Punjabi: Bhadangee
Tamil: Cheruteku
Telugu: Ganttubrarangee
Urdu: Bharangi, Baharangi
Botanical description:
A slightly woody shrub with bluntly quadrangular stems and
branches, leaves usually three at a node, sometimes opposite
oblong or elliptic, serrate; flowers blue, many in long
cylindrical thyrsus; fruits 4 lobed purple durpe, somewhat
succulent with one pyrene in each lobe.
Parts used:
Root and Leaves
Major chemical constituents:
Saponins
Therapeutic uses:
• Abdominal lump (Gulma)
• Fever (Jvara)
• Asthma (Svasa)
• Cough (Kasa)
• Tuberculosis (Yaksma)
• Chronic rhinitis (Pinasa)
• Imflammation (Sotha)
• Hiccup (Hikka)
• Vitiation of Blood and its components (Raktadosa) |
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