कवचनामकः – Mollugo cerviana

 

Name – पर्पटः

Botanical name – Mollugo cerviana

Description – Erect, slender, branched herbs. Leaves linear-spathulate, fascicled. Flowers greenish, in cymes. Capsule globose.

Chemical Constituents- Plant contains flavone-c-glycoside orientin, vitexin.

Use – Stomachic, aperient and antiseptic. Flower and tender shoots diaphoretic and febrifuge. Root boiled in oil for application in gout and rheumatism. It promotes flow of lochial discharges and is Used as a cure for gonorrhoea.