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Specimen profile
Indian Madder Shrub
Calycopteris floribunda · Combretaceae
Skt · Gandhadurva — “Fragrant sacred grass-like creeper bringing mental peace”Hindi · GandhaliMal · PullaniTam · Pullani
A climbing shrub famous for its bitter anthelmintic leaves and life-saving drinkable stem-water.
Calycopteris floribunda is a sprawling climbing shrub with rusty-tomentose young branches, prominent in deciduous forest tracts. Forest travelers famously cut its woody stems to drink its copious stored water during severe drought. In traditional medicine, its bitter leaves are administered to purge intestinal parasites and heal skin ulcers.
Identification markers
Climbing woody shrub with drooping branches, opposite ovate leaves with rusty pubescence below, and dense yellowish-green panicles with accrescent sepals.
Rasa
Tikta, Kashaya
Guna
Laghu, Ruksha
Virya
Ushna
Vipaka
Katu
Prabhava
Bhedana (purging of morbid matter)
Dosha effect
KP- V+