Cissampelos pareira

Cissampelos pareira
Cissampelos pareira
Cissampelos pareira illustration.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Menispermaceae
Genus: Cissampelos
Species: C. pareira
Binomial name
Cissampelos pareira
L.[1]

Cissampelos pareira is a species of flowering plant in the family Menispermaceae.

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Medicinal uses

Cissampelos pareira is used in Chinese herbology, where it is called xí shēng téng (Chinese: 锡生藤) or (Chinese: 亞乎奴). The species is also known as abuta and is also called laghu patha in Ayurvedic medicine. In Tamil Nadu it is called ponmusutai and it is used for a number of medicinal purposes.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Cissampelos pareira information from NPGS/GRIN". http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?10605. Retrieved 2008-02-05. 
  2. ^ Sankaranarayanan, S., et al. (2010). Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by traditional users in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research 4:12 1089-1101.

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