Description :
Indian Fumitory is a delicate much-branched annual herb with clusters of tiny pale-pinkish to whitish flowers, each 5-6 mm long. Sepals are minute. Upper petal has short, somewhat down-curved sac-like spur. Flower-stalks are erect, as long or slightly shorter than the laceshaped bracts.
Details:
Botanical Name : Fumaria officinalis Linn
English Name : Common Fumitory, Earth-smoke
Hindi Name : Pitpapra, Papara, Shahtara
Arabic Name : Shahtaraj, Shaatiraj
Bengali Name : Vanshulfa, Shotara, Pitpapra
Chinese Name : Tzu hua ti ting
French Name : Fumée de terre
German Name : Ackerraute, Echter Erdrauch
Gujarati Name : Pittapapada, Pitpapado
Kannada Name : Kallu Sabasige, Parpatu, Chaturasigide
Kashmiri Name : Shahtar
Marathi Name : Pittapapada, Shatra, Parpat
Malayalam Name: Parpatakam
Persian Name : Shahtara, Shahtarak
Punjabi Name : Shahtara, Pittapapara
Sanskrit Name : Yavana Parpata
Urdu Name : Shahtara
Nepali Name: Dhukure
Telugu Name: Chatarashi
Part Used : Leave,Root,Bark
Medicinal Uses :
- Indian Fumitory is used in aches and pains, diarrhoea, fever, influenza and liver complaints.
- The dried plant is also used as an anthelmintic, diuretic and diaphoretic and, in combination with black pepper, for jaundice.
- A cold infusion of the plant is used to treat wasting diseases of children and to help cooling during fever and in the treatment of constipation and dyspepsia.
- It is used as a blood purifier for skin diseases and applied externally in leucoderma and as a fomentation for swollen joints.
- It is particularly valuable in the treatment of all visceral obstructions, particularly those of the liver.
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