A brief Introduction:
Botanical name: Argyreia
nervosa
Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Common Name: Elephant Creeper, Woolly Morning Glory, Hawaiian baby woodrose, silky elephant glory, Woolly Morning Glory,
- · हिन्दी(Hindi) - घाव बेल (ghav bel), समुन्दर का पाट (samundar-ka-pat), समुद्र शोख (samudra-shosh), विधारा (vidhara)
- · Marathi - गुग्गुळी (gugguli), समुद्रसोक (samudrasoka)
- · Tamil: கடற்பாலை (katar-palai), சமுத்திரப்பாலை (samuttira-p-palai)
- · Malayalam: samudrappacha
- · Telugu: చంద్రపొద (chandra poda)
- · Kannada: ಸಮುದ್ರ ಹಾಳೆ (samudra hale), ಸಮುದ್ರವಲ್ಲಿ (samudravalli)
- · Bengali: bichtarak, goguli
- · Konkani: समुद्रसोंक (samudra somk)
- ·
Sanskrit: मूर्वा (murva), समुद्रफलक (samudraphalaka), समुद्रशोष
(samudrashosha), वृद्धदारु
(vriddadaru)
There are two botanical varieties:
Argyreia nervosa var. nervosa with its proven psychoactive value and Argyrea
nervosa var. speciosa, a species used in ayurvedic medicine, but with little to
no psychoactive value. The seeds of Argyreia nervosa var. nervosa contains the
highest concentration of psychoactive compounds in the family. Traditional use
of Argyreia nervosa var. speciosa in India usually employed the leaves and
roots of the plants, which are not psychoactive, as antiseptic and
anti-inflammatory drugs.
Argyreia nervosa var. nervosa
plant has putative hallucinogenic properties and is famous for containing
hallucinogenic ergoline alkaloids.
Pharmacological actions —
Alterative, aphrodisiac, antiphlogistic, antiseptic, tonic, and emollient.
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