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    Mollugo cerviana is a plant from the family Aizoaceae that grows in parts of India. Various parts of the plant have several traditional medicinal uses. The seeds have been found to have cardiovascular, haemolytic, and spermicidal effects. The plant as a whole is used as a stomachic, aperient, febrifuge, antiseptic, and blood purifier to treat venereal diseases and as an emmenagogue. The roots are used for rheumatism and gout, and flowers and shoots are used as a diaphoretic for fevers.

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    Mollugo cerviana is a plant from the family Aizoaceae that grows in parts of India. Various parts of the plant have several traditional medicinal uses. The seeds have been found to have cardiovascular, haemolytic, and spermicidal effects. The plant as a whole is used as a stomachic, aperient, febrifuge, antiseptic, and blood purifier to treat venereal diseases and as an emmenagogue. The roots are used for rheumatism and gout, and flowers and shoots are used as a diaphoretic for fevers.

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    Mollugo Cerviana

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    Mollugo cerviana is a plant from the family Aizoaceae that grows in parts of India. Various parts of the plant have several traditional medicinal uses. The seeds have been found to have cardiovascular, haemolytic, and spermicidal effects. The plant as a whole is used as a stomachic, aperient, febrifuge, antiseptic, and blood purifier to treat venereal diseases and as an emmenagogue. The roots are used for rheumatism and gout, and flowers and shoots are used as a diaphoretic for fevers.

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    Mollugo cerviana Ser.

    417

    been reported. Saponins isolated from the seeds have been found to effect the cardiovascular activity in dogs and haemolytic activity in human beings. Spasmolytic activity in isolated ileum of guinea-pigs has also been recorded. Saponins from seeds also showed spermicidal activity.
    Dosage Seed,

    bark

    CCRAS.)

    Mollugo cerviana Ser.


    Family Aizoaceae;

    Molluginaceae.

    M
    418 Mollugo spergula Linn. Habitat Upper

    Gangetic Plains,

    Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka.
    Ayurvedic Parpata

    (substitute).

    Grishma-Sundara.
    Siddha/Tamil Parpaatakam. Folk Jeem

    Shaak.

    Action Plantstomachic,

    aperient,

    febrifuge, antiseptic, blood purifier (used for venereal diseases), emmenagogue. Rootused in rheumatism and gout. Flowers and shootsdiaphoretic, given in fevers. An infusion of the plant is given to promote lochial discharge. The plant contains orientin (leteolin-C-glucoside), vitexin (apigenin-C-O-glucosides.

    Theplant is cardiostimulant, also antibacterial.


    SOURCE: http://indian-medicinal-plants.blogspot.com/2009/06/m-maba-nigrescens-dalz.html

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