Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov.
Family – Apocynaceae
Common name – Brushagandha(odia), dholi dudhi (hindi).
💉 Medicinal uses –
🌸 Dried leaf used as bronchitis, dysmenorrheal, asthma, healing cuts & wounds.
🌸 Fresh leaf is used as juice to cure catarrhal infections, infantile diarrhea.
🌸 Latex of this plant used for toothache, boils & sores.
🌸 Stem bark is used for cold, fever, malaria & twig used as an antipyretic.
🌸 Aerial part is used as hepatoprotective, antifertility, anti-diabetic, analgesic antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, snake bite.
🌸 Root is used as bronchitis, constipation & gonorrhea.
🌸 Whole plant is used as anthelmintic, emmenagogue(increase menstrual flow), parturition(childbirth), delayed childbirth, amenorrhea(the absence of monthly menstrual periods).
Sugimani Marndi
Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.
Ambika Prasad Research Foundation
Cuttack, Odisha