Flora of Panipat District- Rauvolfia serpentina (Apocynaceae)
Balkar Arya
Flora of Panipat District- Rauvolfia serpentina (Apocynaceae)
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Herbal Garden National Ferti. Ltd Colony Panipat
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Regards
Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
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Gurcharan Singh
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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
tanay bose
Department of Botany.
University of British Columbia .
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Pankaj Kumar
The plant is named after
Rauvolfia was named by Linnaeus from Leonhard Rauwolf (also spelled
Rauwolff) (Augsburg, June 21 in either 1535 or 1540 – September 15,
1596, Waitzen, Hungary) who was a German physician, botanist and
traveller.
serpentina is with reference to snake smell or its usage against snake.
This is one of the very high value medicinal plant of India and also
of Chinese medicine.
Contains a number of bioactive chemicals, including ajmaline,
deserpidine, rescinnamine, serpentinine. Reserpine is used to treat
high blood pressure and mental disorders including schizophrenia, and
was particularly popular for that purpose in the West from 1954 to
1957. In hindi its called SARPAGANDHA, may be because it smells like
snakes. It has been used for millennia as an antidote against bites of
reptiles.
Regards
Pankaj
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Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae)
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Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project
Department of Habitat Ecology
Wildlife Institute of India
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Dehradun - 248001, India
Dinesh Valke
Also spelt: Rauwolfia serpentina
Other synonyms: Ophioxylon serpentinum, Rauvolfia trifoliata
raau-FO-feeah -- named for Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician, botanist and traveller
ser-pen-TEE-nuh -- from Latin serpentine, referring to a snake
commonly known as: Indian snakeroot, java devil pepper, ichneumon-plant, insanity herb, rauvolfia root, rauwolfia, serpentine wood, snakeroot, snakewood • Assamese: arachoritita • Bengali: চন্দ্র chandra • Gujarati: સર્પગંધા sarpagandha • Hindi: chandrabhaga, छोटा चांद chota-chand, नाकुली nakuli, सर्पगंधा sarpagandha • Kannada: ಸರ್ಪಗನ್ಧ sarpangandha, ಸರ್ಪಗನ್ಧೀ sarpagandhi, ಶಿವನಾಭಿಬಳ್ಳಿ shivanabhiballi, sutranavi, ಪತಾಳಗನ್ಧೀ patalagandhi • Malayalam: അമല്പൊരി amalpori, chuvannavilpori, സര്പ്പഗന്ധി sarppagandhi, suvapavalporiyam • Marathi: harkaya, harki, नाकुली nakuli • Oriya: patalagarar, sanochado • Sanskrit: चन्द्रिका chandrika, नाकुली nakuli, पातालगरुड patalgaruda, सर्पगंधा sarpagandha • Tamil: chevanamalpodi • Telugu: patalaguni, patalagaruda, sarpagandha • Urdu: چاند چهوٿا chota chand, ناکلي nakuli
Native of: s China, Indian Subcontinent, Indo-China, Malesia
Attached views from my native place, Mangalore, premises of Kadri Temple.
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