Gorakhmundi
Description:
An aromatic herb, with purple flower heads. Flowers are credited with alterative, depurative, and tonic properties. the flowers contain albumins, a semi-drying fatty oil, reducing sugars, tannins, mineral matter, a volatile oil, and a glucoside. A spreading aromatic herb with spreading glandular hairy stem and branches with purple or pink flowers. Flowers are credited with alterative, depurative, and tonic properties. The flowers contain albumins, a semi-drying fatty oil, reducing sugars, tannins, mineral matter, a volatile oil, and a glucoside.
Details:
Botanical Name : Sphaeranthus indicus
English Name : East indian globe thistle
Marathi Name : Gorakhmundi
Tamil Name : Visnukkarantai
Malayalam Name : Mirangani, Adakkamanian
Telugu Name : Boddatarapu
Kannada Name : Mundi
Bengali Name : Murmuriya
Urdu Name : Kamdaryus
IndianName:Gorakmundi,Mahamundi,Mundi,Hapus,Kottak,Aranthai,Mirangani,Ghundi,Khamadrus
Gujarati Name : Gorakhmundi
Sanskrit Name : Mahamundi, Tapasvini, Palankasha
Panjabi Name: Ghundi, khamadrus, mundibuti
Family: Asteraceae
Part Used : Fruit,Root, Bark, Leaves, Flowers, and seeds
Medicinal Uses:
- Useful in fever, diabetes, urinary ailments and dermatoses.
- It is a blood purifier and stimulant to the heart, hence used in cardiac debility, associated with edema.
- The plant is used both, internally as well as externally. The application of the paste of its whole plant externally is beneficial in conditions associated with edema and pain, like arthritis, filariasis, gout and cervical adenopathy.
- The leaves juice mixed with black pepper powder, is an effective remedy for migraine.
- It relieves the blocked phlegm in bronchial asthma, cough and eases the problem.
- It is a drug of choice for vata diseases. Mundi is extremely useful in epilepsy, mental debility and as a nervine tonic.