The leaf is reported to contain stigmasterol (59.9%) and beta-sitosterol (26.7%) as major component of sterol faction. The dried flowering plant contains the pyrrolizidine alkaloids, lycopsamine and echinatine.
An aqueous extract of leaves is reported to show haemostatic activity. The plant extract exhibited muscle relaxant activity experimentally. The ethanolic extract (95%) of roots possesses anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties.
The aqueous extract of leaves exhibits antifungal and crude plant extract antibacterial properties.
Aglaia roxburghiana Miq. Hiern
Synonym A. elaegnoidea (A. Juss.) Benth.
Milnea roxburghiana (Miq.) Wight and Am.
Family Meliaceae.
Habitat Western Ghats, tropical forests in the hills of Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and
Andaman and Nicobar islands.
Ayurvedic Priyangu (var.)
26 Agrimonia eupatoria auct non L.
Siddha/Tamil Gnaazhal. (Dried flowers of Myristica malabarica Lam. are also used as Priyangu.)
Action Fruit—cooling (in febrile complaints), antipyretic, astringent, antidiarrhoeal, antidysenteric, anti-inflammatory (seeds used for painful micturition). Fruits are also used for treating obstinate skin diseases and tumours.
Bisamide alkaloids of the leaves exhibit anticancer activity (by inhibiting the growth of vinblastine-resistant KB cells).
Agrimonia eupatoria auct non L.
Synonym A. pilosa Hook.f. non
Ledeb.
A. pilosa Ledeb. var. nepalensis (D.
Don) Nakai
Family Rosacae.
Habitat The Himalayas from Kashmir to West Bengal at 900— 3,000 m, and in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Meghalaya.
English Agrimony, Stickle Wort.
