Folk Nikhari, Bhanwar (Punjab). Action b Antirheumatic, anticephalalgic, antiepileptic and antileprotic.
The plant is boiled in oil and used as an application for rheumatism, headache, epilepsy, fevers, ulcers, leprosy. The seeds are reported to contain a resin similar to that present in the seeds of Ipomoea nil.
Ipomoea hederacea (L.) Jacq.
Synonym Convolvulus hederacus Linn.
Family Convolvulaceae.
Habitat North American species. Not found wild in India. Grown in Indian gardens.
Folk Krishna-bija, Kaalaadaanaa. Kakkattan (Tamil Nadu). Jirki
(Andhra Pradesh).
Action b Seed—purgative. Used as a substitute for Jalap (Exogonium purga).
The seed gave aLkaloids—lysergol, chanoclavine, penniclavine, iso-penniclavine and elymoclavine.
Ipomoea marginata
(Desr.) Verdc.
Family b Convolvulaceae.
Habitat Throughout India in the plains, especially on the bank of stream and rivers.
Ayurvedic Lakshmanaa (Also equated with Ipomoea obscura
(Linn.) Ker-Gawler.), Putradaa, Putraj anani.
Folk Tirutaalli (Kerala). Action Used as a single drug for
curing sterility in women, and for
promoting fertility and virility.
The seeds of Ipomoea obscura contain non-ergolin type indole alkaloids, ipobscurine A and B and serotonin also alkaloid ipobscurine C.
Ipomoea muricata
(Linn.) Jacq., non-Cay.
Synonym I. turbinata Lag. Convolvulus muricatus Linn.
Family Convolvulaceae.
Habitat The Himalayas, West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Maharashtra and South India.
English Traveller’s Midnight Lilies.
Ayurvedic Krishnabija (related species). (Sold as Kaalaadaanaa, seeds of Ipomoea nil.)
Siddha/Tamil Kattu Talai.
Folk Michaai.
