ABELMOSCHUS ESCULENTUS LINN.
Common
name: Coral-wood, Peacock flower fence,
Red beadtree,
Hindi:
Rakt
chandan ,Marathi: Thorla goonj Gujarati: Badigumchi • Tamil: Ani kundamani, Manjadi ,• Malayalam: Sem, Manchadi • Telugu: Gurivenda • Kannada: Ane golaganji • Sanskrit: Ksharaka,
kunchandana, Tamraka
Botanical Name : Abelmoschus esculentus Linn.
Family
Name : Malvaceae
Geographical
distribution: The plant is cultivated throughout
India.
Introduction: A member of the hibiscus
family, gets 3-8' tall (depending on the cultivar) and
bears yellow flowers which give rise to the familiar okra pods so it is common in
India as a fried vegetable. It's attractive blossoms are yellow in
color, funnel-shaped and resemble hibiscus flowers. The throat of the flower is
maroon. The plant is a rather coarse annual with large lobed, slightly spiny
leaves and a thick, semiwoody stem with few branches.
Species
Type : Annual herb
Chemical
composition: The plant contains a large quantity of mucilage, ambrettolide and fixed oil.
Therapeutic
uses: The plant is emollient, demulcent and diuretic.
Fruit is given in fevers, catarrhal affections, gonorrhoea, cystitis, dysuria
and leucorrhoea and in facial skin affections.
Folk
medicinal uses: Mucilage juice is
given in chronic dysentery. Fresh leaves in the form of decoction is given in fever.
Flowers
:
June-October
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