Description
Common Name:Marodphali
Description
A large shrub or small tree upto 5m in height. Bark grey, covered with stellate hairs in young parts. Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious, obovate. Flowers red, solitary or in sparse clusters. Fruits greenish-brown, beaked cylindrical. Seeds numerous, angular, wrinkled.
Plant family
Whether, H. isora belongs to Sterculiaceae or Malvaceae family??
- The plant/shrub is subsumed within Malvaceae family. But, the fact is that it belongs to the Sterculiaceae family to be placed under core (order) Malvales as on 03/06/2014 along with considerably close plant families Malvaceae, Bombacaceae, and Tiliaceae as on 03/06/2014.
However the classification and placement of some genera under these 4 traditional families is not universally accepted. Some taxonomists put plants of all plants into one single family Malvaceae. Nevertheless, majority of them keep H.isora into Sterculiaceae family.
Identification
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- A) Name of the plant/shrub in Ayurveda: Murva and/ or Avartani??
Indigenous medicinal system recognizes H.isora as “Avartani” or “Mrigshringa”,often confused with Murva (another Ayurvedic drug Marsdenia tenacissima (Asclepiadaceae).
Ayurvedic tests have described Murva as Helicteres isora and Sansevieria roxburghiana.
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- B) Physical Identification
There is a close similarity between the leaves of H.isora and Grewia asiatica Linn. (belonging to the Tiliaceae/ Malvaceae family from the same order Malvales). Without fruits and flowers, it is difficult to differentiate between both plant/shrub.
Medicinal Use
Fruits: useful in colic, griping pain in the bowels and flatulence; seeds: in otorrhea used with pure castor oil; bark: diarrhoea and dysentery; root: useful in diarrhoea, dysentery, griping pain in bowels, flatulence and in diabetes.
Medicinal Properties
Fruits: astringent; root: astringent, demulcent, diuretic and antigalactogogue.
Chemistry
Bark: chloroplast pigments, phytosterol, hydroxy-carboxylic acid, saponins and lignin; fruits: alpha and beta amyrins, lupeol and taraxerone; seed: diosgenin.
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