English White Dead Nettle, Archangel.
Action Haemostatic (particularly on the uterus), astringent, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, expectorant. Used for menorrhagia, leucorrhoea, cystitis, prostatitis, bleeding piles, diarrhoea, irritable bowel and respiratory catarrh.
Key application Internally, for catarrh of the upper respiratory passages; externally, for mild, superficial inflammation of the skin. (German Commission E.) Flowers have been recommended for teas and other galenical preparations for internal applications, rinses, baths and moist compresses. As astringent. (The British Herbal Pharmacopoeia.)
The herb contains iridoid monoterpenes; triterpene saponins; caffeic acid derivatives; flavonoids based on kaempferol; tannins (mainly catechins). The plant also gave a carbocyclic iridoid, caryoptoside; besides lambalbide, albosides A and B (iridoid monoterpenes).
Lansium domesticum Correa. 361
Laminum amplexicaule Linn. Family Labiatae; Lam iaceae.
Habitat The temperate Himalayas from Kashmir to Kumaon, Sikkim and Assam.
Folk Titpaati (Garhwal), Jipachi (Tibbet).
Action Plant—stimulant, laxative, diaphoretic, cephalic, antirheum atic.
Lamprachaenium microcephalum Benth.
Family Compositae; Asteraceae.
Habitat Deccan, Konkan and Karnataka.
Unani Brahmdandi. (Tricholepis angustifolia DC. of the same family has also been equated with Brahmdandi in National Form ulary of Unani Medicine.)
Folk Brahmdandi (Maharashtra), Ajadandi.
Action Antiseptic, bitter tonic.
Lannea coromandelica
(Houtt.) Merrill.
Synonym L. grandis (Dennst.) Engl.;
Odina wodier Roxb.
Family Anacardiaceae.
Habitat Throughout India, ascending to 1,500 m in the Himalayas.
Ayurvedic Jingini, Jhingan, Gudamanj an.
Siddha/Tamil Kalasan, Anaikkarai, Odiyan.
Action Bark—stimulant and astringent; used in gout; decoction for aphthae of the mouth and for
