Barleria Prionitis Linn

Barleria Prionitis Linn Barleria prionitis Linn Vernacular call English- common chickenhearted nailo dye countersink Ayurveda Kuruntaka, kurunta, sahachara, vajradanti Unani Piyaabaansaa Tamil or siddha chemmulli Biological reference work It consist of dried-out whole ready of Barleria prionitis Linn (Acanthaceae) Geographical kickoff It found passim the hotter parts of India. It unremarkably maturaten as ornamental coifs in gardens Cultivation The chaparrals pick out a rejoiced situation on ample kind of well-drained moist soil. They leap out temperatures only to a higher place at to the lowest degree 1C. It beaver grows with average one-year rainfall among 750-900 mm. The seeds be really light in weight containing 33,000 seeds/kg. Seedlings grow slowly at first i.e. germinated between 13 and 77 days hobby sowing. However, an established plant grows fast. These pubic hairs f press down from family line to December and harvest from January to April .and can be harvested for four years. inwrought regeneration by and large occurs within 1 or 2 m of the resurrect plant. Description It is evergreen, is a tender, erect, branching, evergreen shrub with spiny bowing nodes, elliptic to ob keen-sighted, mid-green leaves, and spikes of tubular, chickenhearted to chickenhearted-orange flowers in summer.is a tender, erect, branching, evergreen shrub with spiny etymon nodes, elliptic to ob big, mid-green leaves, and spikes of tubular, dis touch to color-orange flowers in summer.is a tender, erect, branching, evergreen shrub bushy shrub grows up to 1-2 m with spiny stanch nodes, elliptic to oblong, mid-green leaves, 6 to 12 centimeters long, narrowed, and pointed at both ends. Flowers be yellow and axillary, with the speed ones in spikes. Bracts and calyx be green, with the outer bract commonly foliaceous. Corolla is near(predicate) 4 centimeters long, flowers in summer. The stems argon terete, hairless, much tined with c ylindrical and fall branchlet Leaves atomic number 18 smooth, opposite, ovate-elliptic to obovate, acuminate, teaseering to base, entire, bank finely ciliate, bristle-tipped and approximately(predicate) 6-15 cm long and 4-6 cm wide. The petioles argon round 0.5-3 cm long, widely airing spines present in axils. The flowers are sessile, yellow in glossiness and often alone(p) in lower axils and spictate in the fastness axils. Bracts are acute, linear-lanceolate, foliaceous, about 1-1.5 cm long and 0.2-0.8 cm wide with bristle tipped. The corolla is bright, gold yellow in colour with downlike outside and glabrous inside and about 1.5 cm long. The filaments are hairy and about 2-2.5 cm long, jaundiced in colour with 3mm long yellow anthers. The ovary is elliptical and sigma is long, linear, bunglesome and pinkish in colour. The fruit is ovoid capsule containing 2 seeds. It is about 1.5-2 cm long and 0.6-0.8 cm wide. The seeds are oval-oblong, cover with silky copper-b rown adpressed hairs and measuring about 7.4-8.56-6.8 mm. Roots are central tap type, with lateral grow branching in all directions. Ayurvedic Properties Rasa Madhura, Tikta Guna Snigdha Virya Usna Vipaka Katu Karma Kaphahara, Keya, Ksa, Ranjana, Visahara. Chemical constituents B. prionitis shows comportment of glycosides, saponins, flavonoids, steroids and tannins Glycosides like prioniside A, prioniside B, prioniside, barlerinoside, verbascoside, shanzhiside methyl ester Saponins- lupulinoside, luteolin-7-O--D-glucoside Flavonoids apigenin 7-O-glucoside, 6-hydroxyflavones Phenolic erosive melilotic acid, syringic acid, vanillic acid, p-hydroxybenzoic acid It excessively sowed the presence of triterpenoids and steroids much(prenominal) as lupeol and B-sitosterol. shin consist of 16% tannins and ellagic acid