White flowered leadwort
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Scientific name
Plumbago zeylanica L.
English Name
White flowered leadwort
Malayalam name
വെള്ളക്കൊടുവേലി
Common name
Ceylon leadwort
Description
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Leaves : ovate or elliptic-ovate
- Flowers : white, in elongate, terminal, often panicled racemes.
- Capsule : oblong
How to use
- Root paste is given in jaundice
- Juice of the root bark along with a little ginger is given in blood dysentery.
- Root along with Calotropis gigantea and black pepper is given in stomachache.
Parts used
Root, rootbark
Uses
Diuretic,Expectorant
Propagation & Cultivation
It is propagated by seeds or by cuttings of side shoots.The compost mixture consists of equal parts of loam,leaf mould and half part each of cowdung manure and sand is best for cultivation.Well drained sunny situation and mild climate are preferable.
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