Original Research Article I Volume 2 I Issue 2 I 2014

MEDICINAL PLANTS OF MORNING GLORY: CONVOLVULACEAE JUSS. OF CENTRAL INDIA (Madhya Pradesh & Chhattishgarh)

Pankaj K. Sahu; Sharmistha Gupta

Biolife; 2014, 2(2), pp 463-469

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203582

Abstract:

The Convolvulaceae are mostly twining herbs or shrubs, sometimes with milky sap, comprising about 85 genera and 2,800 species in the World. The present study focuses into nine species of Convolvulaceae in central India with reference to M.P. & C.G. which have excellent medicinal properties. Ipomoea L. (5 species discussed), used to treat arsenic and opium poisioning, under developed femal structures, piles and used as galactogogue, finds application in cardiac debility, sexual debility, hepatospleenomegaly, dyspepsia, hepatopathy etc.

Keywords:

Convolvulaceae, Nervous debility, Sexual debility, Medicinal plants .

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Article Dates:

Received: 2 April 2014; Accepted: 19 May 2014; Published: 6 June 2014

How To Cite:

Pankaj K. Sahu, & Sharmistha Gupta. (2022). MEDICINAL PLANTS OF MORNING GLORY: CONVOLVULACEAE JUSS. OF CENTRAL INDIA (Madhya Pradesh & Chhattishgarh). Biolife, 2(2), 463–469. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203582