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Diya nidikumba |
| Vernacular Name: Sinhala: Diya nidikumba; Eng: Sensitive water plant | |
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Description: A floating aquatic annual herb with fibrous
rooted nodes and soft elongate intemodes bearing spongy floats; leaves
bipinnate, leaflets 8-15 pairs, small, sensitive, narrow-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, flowers minute, yellow. in axillaly oblong, heads: fruits stalked, deflexed, oblique oblong pods seeds 6 to 9 slightly compressed obvoid-oblong brown. |
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| Propagation: By seeds and vegetative method. | |
| Parts Used: Whole plant. | |
| Chemical Consistuents: N.A. | |
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Uses: The plant is astringent, sweet, refrigerant, diuretic,
antidiarrhoeal, anthelmintic and anodyne. It is useful in vitiated
conditions of pitta, otalgia, cephalalgia, syphilis, burning • sensation, dipsia. diarrhoea, strangury and helminthiasis. |
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