Family: Aristolochiaceae
Synonym
Aristolochia indica var. lanceolata (Wight) Duch.
Vernacular
name: Eshwaramulla, Garudakodi, Kadalivegam, Karalakam
Habit:
Climber
Habitat:
Open dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles
Distribution:
India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Malesia
Flowering
and Fruiting: July-February
Key identification features: It is a glabrous shrub or herbaceous
perennial plant. It features a woody rootstock and long, slender, grooved,
glabrous branches. Flowers
in few flowered axillary racemes. Perianth-tube is greenish-white, limb
purple or brown. Capsule oblong or globose, pendulous. Seeds are winged.
Uses: The powdered roots are used as a
tonic, carminative, stomachic and emmenagogue, used in the treatment of colic,
gastritis, enteritis, food poisoning, rheumatism, oedema and dysmenorrhoea.
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