दॆवी- Anisomeles malabarica

 

Name – स्पृक्का

Botanical name – Anisomeles malabarica

Description – Erect, 1.3-6.0 m tall, branched herb; branches sometimes very stout, densely clothed with snow-white appressed trichomes; leaves opposite, short-petioled, 5-15 cm, basically oblong, very thick; flowers in verticillaster or lax-flowered branched cymes, bracts filiform, teeth very slender; calyx woolly, petals purple; nutlets pale.

Chemical Constituents- Plant (roots, stems, leaves and flowers) yield essential oil, anisomelic acid, ovatodiolide, diterpenes – malabaric acid, anisomelyl acetate, anisomellol, anisomelolide, crisilineol, betulinic acid and Beta-sitosterol.

Use – Infusion of leaves used in dyspepsia and fever accompanying teething in children. Decoction of the plant or its essential oil used in rheumatism