Bharangi
Description :
A slightly woody shrub with bluntly quadrangular stems and branches, leaves usually three at a node, sometimes opposite oblong or elliptic, serrate; flowers blue, many in long cylindrical thyrsus; fruits 4 lobed purple durpe, somewhat succulent with one pyrene in each lobe.
Details :
Botanical Name: Clerodendrum serratum
English Name : Prang-gadawn
Hindi Name : Bharangi ,ban bakri, banbakri, barangi, bharangi, bhurangi, gant-baharangi
Malayalam Name : Cheruthekku
Common Name : Prang-Gadawn,Brahmanayashtika, Kharashakha, Padma
Assamese Name :Nangal bhanga
Bengali Name :Barapard, bharangi, saram lutur
Garo Name :Riong phlang, sam seng, samgongol
Jaintia Name :Dieng lamyrsiang
Kannada Name : Bhaarangi, bharangi, gantibharangi, gantu barangi
Khasi Name : Hyrsymet
Malayalam Name :Cerutekku, cheru-tekka, cherutekku, cheruteku, chinteku
Manipuri Name :moirang khanam
Marathi Name :Barang, bhaarangi, bharangi, domb-saylo, ganthu baarangi
Mizoram Name :Phuihnamsuak
Oriya Name : Varvara
Sanskrit Name :Angaravallari, angaravalli, baleya, barbara, bhandi
Tamil Name : Angaravalli, cacakkini, cakancam.
Telugu Name :Baarangi, banal chettu, barangi, bharangi, bhramaramari
Tibetan Name :Bha-rgi, ga bra i rtsa ba, ga brai rtsa ba
Urdu Name : Baharangi, baharangi (bharangi)
Family Name : Verbenaceae
Part Used : Root,Leaves
Medicinal Uses :
- Bharangi vitiates blood and removes the obstruction in the circulatory channels and alleviates swelling.
- Bharangi leaves ground in a paste are used in lymphadenopathy. Leaf juice is applied on erysipelas.
- Being an appetizer, digestant and laxative, Bharangi is useful in anorexia, and loss of appetite.
- Since Bharangi is Snigdha and Madhura, it acts as an expectorant. It is therefore useful in cough and hoarseness of voice.
- Mixture of Bharangi root juice and ginger juice is given in asthma to reduce the attacks of dyspnoea.
- In amenorrhea, Bharangi powder is used along with decoction of sesame seeds.
- Bharangi Powder is recommended in Vata disorders specially involving the painful joints.
- Bharangi powder is also useful in menstrual disorders specially amenorrhea.
- Bharangi is very beneficial in respiratory disorders and used in Cold,cough ,bronchitis and asthma.
- Pasted leaves of Bharangi should be applied on wound for fast healing.
- Bharngi is a good blood purifier and beneficial to treat skin diseases.
- Clerodendrum serratum is very useful in rheumatic conditions and painful joints.