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Botanical Name:
Gloriosa superba
Langali consists of dried tuberous root of Gloriosa superba
Linn, Family Liliaceae
Common Name(s) in English & Indian Languages
Sanskrit: Kalihari, Garbhanut, Halini, Agnisikha
Bengali: Bisalanguli
English: Glory Lily
Guajarati: Khadiyanag
Hindi: Kalihari
Kannada: Kolikutumana Gade
Malayalam: Mathonni
Marathi: Karianag
Oriya: Kariyari
Tamil: Kalappoi Kizhangu
Telugu: Potthidumpa
Botanical description:
Gloriosa superba Linn. is a glabrous climbing herb with
tuberous root stock grows over hedges and small trees. Stem
is 6m long which grows to a height of 1.2-1.5m before the
stem branches. Leaves are simple, alternate or whorled,
sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 17x4.5 cm, tip elongating into a
spirally coiled tendril, base cordate and margin entire.
Flowers are large in terminal racemes; perianth segments,
linear,flexuosus and deflexed, basal half bright yellow,
upper half red; stamens ovary glabrous,3-celled. Fruits are
capsules, linear-oblong, upto 6.8cm long, 3 equal lobes, one
or two lobes shorter in malformed fruits; green dried to
pale and then black colour, dehisced into three sections.
Seeds are oval in shape, testa spongy, embryo cylindric,
30-150 seeds per capsule, pale orange attached to the
sutures. Tubers are cylindric, large, simple, ‘V’ shaped
with the two limps equal or unequal in length pointed
towards end brownish externally and yellowish internally.
Parts used:
Roots
Major chemical constituent:
Alkaloids and Resins
Therapeutic uses:
• Diseases of skin (Kustha)
• Oedema (Sopha)
• Piles (Arsa)
• Ulcer (Vrana)
• Pain (Sula)
• Worm infestation (Krmi)
• Pain in urinary system (Bastisula)
• Diseases due to vata dosa (Vatavyadhi) |
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