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Artemisia roxburghiana Wall.
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- Local Name:
- Kashmari Chahu.
- Synonym:
- Habit & Habitat:
- A strongly aromatic perennial herb up to 70cm tall,found in sub-alpine and alpine zones.
- Plant Description:
- Stem several, often purplish tinged,whitish and hairy.Leaves almost sessile,oblong-ovate to broadly elliptic,green above,greynish white arachnoid beneath,bipinnatisect.Middle stem leaves auricled at the base. Inflorescence composed of heterogamous capitula,sessile or very short peduncled. Florets 20-40,usually purple-brown tinged,fertile. Marginal 5-8 with 2-dentate corolla. Disc florets 15-30 with 5-toothed corolla. Fruit a cypsela,brown.
- Flowering and Fruiting:
- July-October.
- Harvesting Time:
- August-December.
- Medicinal Value:
- Locally whole plant extract is useful in fever, diabetes. Decoction is used for stomach healing, worm killing and to cure allergies in local areas.
- Part Used:
- Whole plant.
- Occurrence:
- Very common at high altitudes.
- Future Perspective:
- Collection, Drying, Packing, Herbal Pharmacy, Allopathic Pharmacy, Cosmetic.
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