Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov. Family - Apocynaceae Common name - Brushagandha(odia), dholi dudhi (hindi).

Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov.

Family - Apocynaceae

Common name - Brushagandha(odia), dholi dudhi (hindi).

 

💉 Medicinal uses -

🌸 Dried leaf used as bronchitis, dysmenorrheal, asthma, healing cuts & wounds.

🌸 Fresh leaf is used as juice to cure catarrhal infections, infantile diarrhea.

🌸 Latex of this plant used for toothache, boils & sores.

🌸 Stem bark is used for cold, fever, malaria & twig used as an antipyretic.

🌸 Aerial part is used as hepatoprotective, antifertility, anti-diabetic, analgesic antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, snake bite.

🌸 Root is used as bronchitis, constipation & gonorrhea.

🌸 Whole plant is used as anthelmintic, emmenagogue(increase menstrual flow), parturition(childbirth), delayed childbirth, amenorrhea(the absence of monthly menstrual periods).

Sugimani Marndi

Biodiversity and Conservation Lab. 

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation

Cuttack, Odisha 

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