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http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2687| Title: | Review of Boerhaavia Diffusa Linn |
| Authors: | Sreeja, S |
| Keywords: | Boerhaavia Diffusa, therapeutic uses, expectorant, carminative, cortisol, phytoconstituents |
| Issue Date: | 2018 |
| Publisher: | Friend of Health |
| Abstract: | Boerhaavia diffusa linn is a medicinal plant widely distributed as a weed throughout India, the Pacific, and southern United States.It is widely used in treating clinical conditions like asthma, beriberi,jaundice,hypertension,urinarydisorders,rheumatism,gonorrhea,heartdiseases,anaemia, chronic conjunctivitis and blepharitis. The plant shows pharmacological effect as anticonvulsant, analgesic, laxative, immunosuppressant, anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, analgesic, hepatoprotective, anti-viral, antifungal and anti-fibrinolytic activity. |
| Description: | The genus Boerhavia can be recognised by its erect or diffused herbaceous habit, greenish purple, stiff, slender stem thickened at nodes and paniculate inflorescence. Prostrate or ascending herb, to 50 cm long, many-branched from a taproot; twigs cylindrical, glabrous. Leaves opposite in unequal pairs; blades 25 to 37 mm, ovate to wide ovate, sparsely pilose, especially on veins, glabrous above, whitish belowP, the apex rounded to acute, shortly apiculate, the base rounded, truncate to nearly cordate,the margins wavy, ciliate; petioles pilose, 0.5-3 cm long. Flowers nearly sessile, 2-4(-7) in terminal, subcapitate clusters on axillary racemes or terminal panicles, 10-30 cm long; the axes glabrous; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2687 |
| Appears in Collections: | Review of Boerhaavia Diffusa Linn |
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