Abutilon indicum (L.) Sweet.
Malvaceae
Myanmar name : Than pa choke (သံပခ်ဳပ္)
English name : Country mallow, Moon flower.
Tomentose perennial herb, woody at the base, shoots produced perennially. Leaves alternate, simple, cordate, tip acute, margin irregularly toothed, surface with closely-felted white. Inflorescence solitary and axillary; flowers yellow, opening in the evening. Fruit carpels 20, glabrescent, truncate, awns spreading. Seeds brown, marked by shallow depressions.
Grows wild as weed on hillsides, in grassland and by roadsides in Myanmar.
Root, Leaves
Acute submandibular lymphadenitis, chronic lymphadenitis, dysentery.
Root slurry is externally applied three times a day. Leaves and sugar are boiled in water until 1/3 of original volume is left. In a dose of 25 ml of such decoction is taken three times a day for dysentery.
None reported
Glossypetin - 8 and 7 - glucosides, cyanidin – 3 - rutinoside, amino acid, glucose, fructose, galactose, gallic acid, alantolactone and isoalantolactone.
Analgesic activity.
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