Chandigarh Forests
Department of Forest & Wildlife
UT Administration
Chandigarh
Department of Forest & Wildlife
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Division
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Angiosperms |
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Class
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Monocotyledons |
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Order |
Liliales |
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Family
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Liliaceae |
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Genus
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Aloe |
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Species
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barbadensis |
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Etymology: |
Derived from the Arabic “alloch”, for the perennial succulents, adopted in Greek as Aloe e.g. A. barbadensis. |
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Botanical name
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Aloe barbadensis Mill. (syn. A. vera Tourn. ex Linn.) |
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Local/Trade names:
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Indian Aloe, Ghikumari |
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Description: |
A perennial fleshy plant. Leaves sessile, crowded, lanceolate, erect, spreading, spiny toothed at the margin, fleshy. Flower on a scape, scaly branched and longer than leaves, yellow. |
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Distribution: |
t is found in hotter provinces in India. Many of the form of this species are naturalized in India and semi-arid regions and dry westward valleys of the Himalaya. It is propagated by suckers. |
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Where to see it: |
Medicinal plant garden. |
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Uses: |
The plant is bitter, sweet, cooling, anthelmintic, aperient, carminative, deobstruent, depurative, diuretic, stomachic, emmenagogue, ophthalmic and alexeteric. The juice is used in dyspepsia, amenorrhoea, burns, colic, hyperadenosis, hepatopathy, splenopathy, skin diseases, constipation, spanomenorrhea, vitiated conditions of vata and pitta, abdominal tumours, dropsy, carbuncles, sciatica, lumbago and flatulence.The also is used for helminthiasis in children and is purgative, anthelmintic and emmenagogue. It is used for local application in painful inflammations, chronic ulcers and catarrhal and purulent opthalmia. |
