Ipomoea nil

Ipomoea nil (L.) Roth.
Family : Convolvulaceae
Common name : Kani kaudia, atakali phula

Medicinal uses -
🕊Seeds are useful in anti-inflammatory, carminative, depurative, purgative, vermifuge, inflammations, constipation, dyspepsia bronchitis, fever, skin diseases, scabies.

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How a Wood Decaying Fungus decay the wood

How a Wood Decaying Fungus decay the wood

🍄 Fungi are the main organisms responsible for wood decay.
🍄 Wood-decay fungi can be classified according to the type of decay that they cause like brown rot, soft rot, and white rot
🍄 Dry wood will not decay because wood decaying fungi can't be activated without moisture.
🍄 When fungi decay wood, the process involves breaking down of complex chemical compounds, primarily cellulose and/or lignin.
🍄 Fungi secret digestive enzymes and other
chemicals for breakdown and digestion of these food products.

Source: From literature & Internet
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Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.
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Chromolaena odorata

Chromolaena odorata (L)

Family : Asteraceae

Common name : Pokasunga ( Odia) 

Location : Kalahandi, Odisha

Medicinal uses:

✨ It has been widely used as wound healer. 

✨ It is also used for the treatment of cold and fever. 

✨ Potential against diarrhea  and diabetes. 

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Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation

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Senna occidentalis

Senna occidentalis (L.) Link
Family :  Fabaceae
Common name :  Kasinda (Odia)
Location : Kalahandi, Odisha

Medicinal uses:
🌱Leaves were used in various skin diseases.
🌱 It is also used to treat typhoid, fever, asthma and also diabetes.
🌱 Infusion of the leaves is used to treat hepatitis.
🌱 It is used as a blood purifier.

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Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.
Ambika Prasad Research Foundation
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Melastoma malabathricum

Melastoma malabathricum L.

Family : Melastomataceae

Common name : Malabar melastome

Medicinal uses -

🌺 The combination of leaves & flowers are used as astringent in leucorrhea & chronic diarrhea.

🌺 The leaves are chewed up, pounded & applied as paste on cuts or wounds or finely chopped up and squeezed to apply the juice onto the wound to stop bleeding.

🌺 The shoots juice can also be used as  a mouthwash to relieve a toothache or to treat leucorrhea. 

🌺 The roots can also be  used as mouthwash to relieve a toothache & to treat epilepsy.

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Ambika Prasad Research Foundation, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

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Leucas aspera

Leucas aspera (Wills.) Link

Family : Lamiaceae

Common name : Thumbai, Gaisa (Odia)

Location : Kalahandi, Odisha

Medicinal uses:

🍁 Used in different types of skin diseases.

🍁 Leaves are useful against fever and cold.

🍁 Useful in the treatment of cough.

Sweta Mishra

Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation

Bhubaneswar, Odisha

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Limnophila repens

Limnophila repens  (Benth.) Benth.

Family : Plantaginaceae

Common name : Creeping Marshweed 

It is mostly found in moist places near water

Medicinal uses  -

🕊Limnophila repens had analgesic & anti-inflammatory activity .

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Calotropis gigantea

Calotropis gigantea (L.) Dryand.

Family : Apocynaceae

Common name : Giant milkweed, Arakha (Odia)

Location : Kalahandi, Odisha

Medicinal uses:

✨ Having wound healing activity.

✨ Used to treat diarrhea and constipation like stomach disorders.

✨ This plant is known for antimicrobial and anti inflammatory activities.

✨ Used to treat toothache and joint pain.

Sweta Mishra

Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation

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Bombax ceiba

Bombax ceiba  L.

Family : Malvaceae

Common name : Simili

Medicinal uses -

🍁 The root is used as sweet, cooling, stimulant, restorative, astringent.

🍁 It is useful in dysentery, influenza, burning sensation, menorrhagia 

🍁 Bark is mucilaginous, demulcent, emetic, & tonic. 

🍁 Flowers are astringent and good for skin troubles and hemorrhoids. 

🍁 Seeds are useful in treating gonorrhea and chronic cystitis. 

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Abutilon indicum

Abutilon indicum

Family : Malvaceae

Common name : Indian mallow, Pedi-pedika (Odia)

Location : Kalahandi, Odisha

Medicinal uses:

🏵️ Roots To treat fever and dry cough.

🏵️ Leaves To cure toothache, inflammation, piles etc.

🏵️ Fruits are also used to treat piles, gonorrhea.

🏵️ Seeds are used to treat chest problems.

 

Sweta Mishra

Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation

Bhubaneswar, Odisha

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Breynia vitis-idaea

Breynia vitis-idaea (Burm.f.) C.E.C.Fisch.

Family: Phyllanthaceae

Common name: Mountain coffee Bush, surasaruni

Medicinal uses -

🐞Root decoction is used as mouthwash.

🐞The bark is astringent, it is used to prevent haemorrhage.

Sugimani Marndi

Biodiversiry & Conservation lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

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Jatropha gossypiifolia

Jatropha gossypiifolia L.
Family : Euphorbiaceae
Common name: Baigaba (Odia)
Location : Kalahandi, Odisha

Medicinal uses:
🌿 Stem sap stops bleeding and itching of cuts and scratches.
🌿 It has an anti-cancer activity.
🌿 Roots are used against leprosy.
🌿 A decoction of the bark and leaves for
stomachache, venereal disease and as blood purifier.

Sweta Mishra
Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.
Ambika Prasad Research Foundation
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
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Rotula aquatica

Rotula aquatica  Lour.
Family : Boraginaceae
Common name : Aquatic Rotula

Medicinal uses  -
🥀Roots are used in renal & vesicle calculi, hemorrhoids, veneral diseases & diabetes.
🥀The roots also used for the treatment of piles and as a laxative.
🥀It exhibits cooling, bitter & astringent properties.
🥀Diuretic and cardiotonic properties were exhibited by this plant as per Ayurveda.
🥀It is widely used in the treatment of kidney and bladder stones.

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Biodiversiry & Conservation lab.
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Ocimum sanctum

Ocimum sanctum Linn

Family : Lamiaceae

Common name : Tulsi

Location : Kalahandi, Odisha

 “The Incomparable One” OR “Mother Medicine of Nature” OR “The Queen of Herbs”

Medicinal uses:

👉Tulsi is a popular home remedy for  number of ailments. 

🌱It is used to cure  many illnesses like common cold, headache, cough, flu, malaria.

🌱It is effective against asthma, skin diseases, insomnia, digestive disorders. 

🌱The leaves are good for nerves and to sharpen the memory. 

🌱Chewing of Tulsi leaves cures ulcers and infections of mouth.

Sweta Mishra

Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation

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Azadirachta indica

Azadirachta indica A. Juss.

Family : Meliaceae

Common name : Neem

Location : Kalahandi, Odisha

Flowers and fruits are edible

Medicinal uses:

🦋 Neem is used against many skin 

diseases like acne, psoriasis, eczema, ringworm

etc.

🦋 Neem leaves are useful for increase immunity of the body.

🦋 It is also used to reduce fever, treating various foot fungi, useful against termites. 

🦋 Neem oil acts as toothache reliever and tooth cleaners.

🦋 It is also used for treatment of diabetes, aids, cancer, heart disease, herpes, allergies and ulcers.

Sweta Mishra

Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation

Bhubaneswar, Odisha

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Lindernia crustacea

Lindernia crustacea (L.) F.Muell

Family  : Linderniaceae

Common name  : Malaysian false pimpernel

Medicinal uses  -

🌼 The leaf decoction is applied to cure boils & itches, herpes-like sores, & to sores caused by forest ticks.

🌼It is used to treat fever, skin disorders & dysentery.

Sugimani Marndi

Biodiversiry & Conservation lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

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Coccinia grandis

Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt

Family : Cucurbitaceae

Common name: Tindora, bana kunduri (Odia)

Location : Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Medicinal uses:

✨ It has the cooling property to eyes. 

✨ The paste of leaves is applied externally in ringworm, psoriasis and itching.

✨ The leaves are also useful in treatment of diabetes and malarial infection.

✨ Leaf extract is also useful in treatment of gonorrhea.

✨ It also used to treat jaundice, gastro-intestinal problems and to relieve pain.

Sweta Mishra

Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation

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Crinum asiaticum

Crinum asiaticum  Linn.

Family  : Amaryllidaceae

Common name :  Spider lily

Medicinal uses  -

🍁It leaves are applied in skin infections and also as expectorant.

🍁Squamous bulb is used for swelling sores, pain of rheumatic joints, injuries caused by falls.

Sugimani Marndi

Biodiversiry & Conservation lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

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Murdannia nuduflora

Murdannia nudiflora (L.) Brenan

Family : Commelinaceae

Common name : Kanduli

Location : Kalahandi, Odisha

Medicinal uses:

🍁 It has been traditionally used in the cure of leprosy .

🍁 Effective against piles and other stomach complaints.

🍁 The root paste mixed with goat milk has been used to cure  asthma.

🍁 The paste of the whole plant with common salt is used to cure leprosy.

Sweta Mishra

Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation

Bhubaneswar, Odisha

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Synedrella nodiflora

Synedrella nodiflora  (L) Gaertn 

Family  : Asteraceae

Common name : Cinderella Weed 

Medicinal uses  -

🌺The plant is applied externally to relieve from inflammation and headache.

🌺The juice, expressed from the leaves mixed with the seeds of Nigella sativa, is used to get relieve from earache.    

🌺In India, the leaves are used to treat rheumatism.

🌺The whole plant is boiled and the aqueous extract drunk as required for the treatment of epilepsy. 

🌺The leaves are used for the treatment of hiccup.

Sugimani Marndi

Biodiversiry & Conservation lab.

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

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