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Botanical Name:
Sida cordifolia
Bala consists of dried root of Sida cordifolia Linn, Family
Malvaceae
Common Name(s) in English & Indian Languages
Sanskrit: Bala
Assamese: Bor sonborial
Bengali: Brela
English: Country mallow
Guajarati: Junglimethi
Hindi: Kungyi
Kannada: Bala, Benne garaga
Malayalam: Velluram
Marathi: Chikana
Oriya: Suvarna
Punjabi: Simak
Tamil: Mayir-manikham
Telugu: Chittamutti, Mattavapulagam
Botanical description:
An annual or perennial short, erect, greyish-green, softly
hairy or pubescent woody undershrub, 0.5-1 m high. Leaves
simple, very downy, alternate, 2.5 – 5 X 1.8- 3cm,
orbicular, ovate, ovate- oblong or cordate, margin crenate,
base cordate, petioled, stipulate, stipules linear. Flowers
bisexual, light or sulphur yellow to cream white, axillary
and solitary but appears crowded in the upper part and
towards tips of the branches, without an epicalyx. Fruit
depressed, globose schizocarp, 6-8 mm dia, each carpel
having two long straight linear to setaceous scabrous awns.
Seeds smooth, flattened, reniform, brown or black.
Parts used:
Root
Major chemical constituents:
C28 phyto-ecdysones, carboxylated tryptamines, quinazoline
alkaloids, sympathomimetic amines,
b-phenethylamine,
b-sitosterol,
acylsteryglycoside sitoindoside, phytosterol, resin acids
Therapeutic uses:
• Antirheumatic
• Anti-inflammatory & analgesic
• Hepatoprotective
• Immunostimulatory
• Antispasmodic
• Antiamoebic
• Antiasthmatic
• Antihypertensive
• Hypoglycaemic
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