 Podophyllum emodi Wall. ex Hook.f.&Thomson |
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Podophyllaceae.
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- Local Name:
- Ban Kakri.
- Synonym:
- Podophyllum hexandrum Royle
- Habit and Habitat:
- A very costly perennial herb, up to 40-60 cm tall, with vertically creeping rhizome, found in temperate, sub-alpine and alpine zones.
- Taxonomic Features:
- Leaves palmate, deeply 3-5 lobed, long petioled, lateral lobes obliquely ovate, middle lobes broadly elliptic and symmetrical, all lobes sharply toothed, acute. Flower actinomorphic, white to pale, terminal in bud but become supra axillary later. Sepals-3, oblong, petaloid. Petals obovate-oblong. Fruit a pulpy berry, many seeded, red on ripening.
- Flowering and Fruiting:
- March-May.
- Harvesting Time:
- May-September.
- Medicinal Value:
- It possesses purgative and anticancer properties and used as a paint in the treatment of soft venereal and warts and as a bitter tonic. [1][15] The rhizome contains an alkaloid that is used for cancer treatment. Locally it is used as hepatic stimulant and purgative. Fruit is eaten in gastric problems.It is a poisonous plant used in small doses.
- Part Used:
- Fruit and rhizome.
- Occurrence:
- Uncommon.
- Future Perspective:
- Conservation, Cultivation, Herbal Pharmacy, Allopathic Pharmacy.
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