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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Dicotyledons |
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Subclass
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Gamopetalae |
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Series |
Hypogynae |
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Order |
Personales |
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Family |
Scrophulariaceae |
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Genus |
Bacopa |
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Species |
monnieri |
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Etymology:
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Derived from South American Indian name,a genus of herb called “Water Hysopp”. |
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Botanical name:
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Bacopa monnieri (L.) Penn. |
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Local/Trade names:
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Thyme leaved gratiola, Jal Brahmi, Jalnim |
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Description: |
A prostrate, succulent herb with branches spreading or ascending and rooting at the nodes. Leaves obovate-oblong or spathulate, upto 18mm long. lowers campanulate, bluish-purple or white with bluish veins, solitary, axillary, short-or-long-pedicilate. |
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Distribution:
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Flowering gap is 44-49 years. |
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Distribution |
It is found in marshy tracts in Sub-tropical region, upto 1000m elevation. It also found in West Bengal. It is propagated by runner. |
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Where to see it |
Nursery, Medicinal plant garden. |
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Uses |
The plant is astringent, bitter, sweet, cooling, laxative, intellect promoting, anodyne, carminative, digestive, anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant, depurative, cardiotonic, bronchodilator, diuretic, emmenagogue, sudorific,
febrifuge and tonic. It is useful in vitiated conditions of kapha and vata, biliousness, reuralgia, inflammations, epilepsy, insanity, amentia, tumours,
ulcer, spenomegaly, ascites, dyspepsia, flatulence, constipation, asthma, bronchitis, skin diseases, leprosy, leucoderma, erysipelas, syphilis, hoarseness, strangury, elephantiasis, dysmenorrhoea, sterility, fever and general debility. |
