Description:
Indian Mallow is the medium sized perennial shrub which is used as a medicinal properties. The plant is called petari, Jhapi in bengali. The plant is covered with hairs and mature plant can reach upto 2 meters. Leaves are alternate, acute heart shaped and green in colour. Flowers are yellow in colour and have 5 petals. The fruits are circular in shape and have 15-20 hairy carpels and green in colour. The seeds are kidney shaped blackish brown in colour. This is very easily grown in India.
Common Name: Indian Mallow
Botanical Name:Abutilon indicum
Family:Malvaceae
Life Cycle: Perennial
Plant Height: 2 meter
Foliage Colour: Green
Flower Colour: Yellow
Temperature: 20-25 degree c
Light Requirements: Full sun/ Part sun
Soil Type: Well drained
Advantages: Easy to grow
Benefits and Uses:
1. The plant is used in traditional medicine for inflammation, piles and gonorrhea treatment and as an immune stimulant.
2. The essential qualities of the leaves used to prevent constipation and purify the blood.
3. The flowers are used to increase semen in men.
4. Indian mallow contains antibacterial properties which is very helpful to any kind of wounds.
5. The leaf of the plant is very useful to gum bleeding and toothache problems.
6. And the whole plant is used in gout, tuberculosis, ulcers, bleeding disorders, digestive, laxative and so on.
7. Root and bark are of the plant used as aphrodisiac, anti diabetic, nervine tonic, and diuretic.
8. Seeds are used in urinary disorders, piles and in the treatment of cough.
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