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In the Nighantus, there
are passages that describe the herbs burning and acrid
properties. Religious mendicants attending fairs used the
root to generate sores on their bodies in order to obtain
alms. Several European writers of Indian drugs have
mentioned this plant.
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| Habitat |
Found wild in
peninsular India and also cultivated as ornament.
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| Morphology
Description (Habit) |
It is a perennial,
sub-scandent shrub. The leaves are ovate and glabrous. The flowers
are white, in elongated spikes. The capsules are oblong, pointed,
contained in a viscid glandular persistent calyx.
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| Principal
Constituents |
Plumbagin was
isolated from the plant1.
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| Toxicology |
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No adverse effect is reported on
use of this plant as a drug.
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