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| Local Name : |
Nelavemu |
| English Name : |
CREAT |
| Botanical Name : |
Andrographis paniculata Wall.ex Nees. |
Botanical Description: It is a herbaceous plant, native to India and Srilanka. It is widely cultivated in Southern and South eastern Asia . It is an erect annual branched herb, extremely bitter in taste in all parts of the plant body. Leaves glabrous, dark green, lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex. Flowers in axillary and terminal racemose panicles,pale purple. Capsule glandular , pubescent, linear –oblong , pointed at apex. Flowering & Fruiting occur from November to April. |
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| Propagation |
Seeds and stem cuttings |
| Soil Type |
All types of soils |
| Espacement |
15cm X 15cm |
| Irrigation |
Weekly once |
| Yield |
2000-2500 Kg.drywt.herb per ha. |
Therapeutic uses:
- Juice of the plant (50-75 ml.) is to be given orally 2-3 times daily for a period of one week to treat malerial and typhoid fevers.
- The juice of the leaves together with, cardamoms, cloves, cinnamom etc. is dried in the sun and made into little globules which are given to infants to relieve griping, irregular stools and loss of appetite.
- The plant is very useful in general debility, dysentery and certain forms of dyspepsia.
- The roots and the leaves are used as febrifuge , stomachic, tonic , alterative and anthelmintic
- It is also used in treating HlV patients.
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