varies with season and from place to place.) The main indole alkaloid reported is akuammigine and oxindole alkaloids have been identified as mitraphylline, isomitraphylline, pteropodine, isopteropodine, speciophylline and uncarine F.
Anthocephalus cadamba Miq. is the accepted source of Kadamba.
Mollugo cerviana Ser.
Family Aizoaceae; Molluginaceae.
418 Mollugo spergula Linn.
Habitat Upper Gangetic Plains, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka.
Ayurvedic Parpata (substitute). Grishma- Sundara.
Siddha/Tamil Parpaatakam.
Folk Jeem Shaak.
Action Plant—stomachic, aperient, febrifuge, antiseptic, blood purifier (used for venereal diseases), emmenagogue. Root—used in rheumatism and gout.
Flowers and shoots—diaphoretic, given in fevers. An infusion of the plant is given to promote lochial disflcharge.
The plant contains orientin (leteolin-8-C-glucoside), vitexin (apigenin8-C-glucoside) and their 2” -0-gluco- sides. The plant is cardiostimulant, also antibacterial.
Mollugo spergula Linn.
Synonym M. oppositifolia Linn. Glinus oppositfolius (Linn.) A. DC.
Family Aizoaceae, Molluginaceae.
Habitat Greater part of India, especially in Assam, Bengal and
Deccan Peninsula.
Ayurvedic Grishma-sundara,
Parpata (Kerala).
Siddha/Tamil Thurapoondu.
Folk Jala-papr (Bihar), Jeem Shaak.
Action Plant—stomachic, aperient and antiseptic. Used as a bitter tonic for liver disorders.
Aerial parts gave vitexin, vitexin-7- glucoside and 2” -p-coumaroylvitexin7-glucoside.
Mollugo stricta Linn., synonym M. pentaphylla Linn. (throughout the plains and Ghats of India), is also known as Parpatakam in the South, Jala-papr in Bihar and Kharas in Maharashtra. The plant is
