KaliJiri
Description :
This is a small annual erect plant. The stem is leafy and hairy. The leaves are lanceolate, acute and serrate, pubescent on both the sides.
The lowering season is December to February. The flowers are purpleor violet bract one at the top of the peducle. The seeds are black.
Also Seed contains a resin,an alkaloid known as vernonine,an oil and ash amounting to 8 p.c of the dry material.
Externally the seeds are used in slin diseases in a variety of forms such as paste,oil.Etc.It is used for flatulence and cough.
Details:
Botanical Name:Centratherum anthelmintica
English Name : Purple Fleabane
Hindi Name : Sahdevi, Sadodi
Sindhi Name: Kari geeri
Urdu Name: Kali ziri, Zira dashti
Sanskrit Name :Sahadevi, Daudotpala
Family: Compositae / Asteaceae
Part Used: Flakes
Medicinal Uses :
Plant : Considered diaphoretic, its decoction is used to promote perspiration in febrile condition, remedy for spasm of bladder and strangury. Juice of plant is given in piles.
Root : Given for dropsy, juice for cough and colic.
Leaves : Fresh juice in amoebiasis, poultice in herpes, eczema, ringworm, and extraction for guinea worms, with oil in treatment of elephantiasis.
Flower : Administered for conjunctivitis, fever and rheumatism
Seed : Paste with lime juice for destroying pediculi, given in cough, flatulence, intestinal colic, dysuria and leucoderma, psoriasis, and other chronic skin diseases, it is also used as anthelmintic, alexipharmic, and as a constituent of masalas for horses. Effective against round worm and thread worm.
October 8, 2014@ 9:13 am
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