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Pedalium murex

Scientific Name
Pedalium murex
Family Name
Pedaliaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Bara gokhru (India), Et nerenchi (Sri Lanka)
Description
A much branched foetid smelling succulent herb with rough slime secreting glands.Leaves simple, opposite, somewhat fleshy, broadly ovate-oblong, coarsely crenate-serrate or sublobate, glabrous above, provided with minute scales on the lower surface.Flowers bright yellow, axillary and solitary. Fruits bluntly 4- angled with stout, sharp,conical horizontal spines from the angles. (India)
Uses
Strangury, renal, vesical calculi, aphthae, puerperal diseases, spasmodic, amenorrhea,inflammation, dyspepsia, flatulence, ulcers, fever, debility (India)
Diuretic, aphrodisiac, demulcent, gonorrhea, impotence, lochia, spermatorrhoea,spleen enlargement (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Pedalium murex (GRIN)

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