Aqueous extract is poisonous to American cockroaches. It is also stuffed into holes of crabs to kill them. Pulverized seeds have antimicrobial property. The external application of a paste of this herb is beneficial in treating pruritus and edema, arthritis, filariasis, gout and cervical adenopathy. The oil prepared using the plant root is reportedly useful in treating scrofula and as an aphrodisiac. Flowers are tonic, cooling, alterative and used in conjunctivitis and give strength to weak eyes. Hot water extract of the herb is used as an anthelminitic, as a diuretic, as a fish poison and as an aphrodisiac.
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Leaves dried in the shade and powdered are used in doses of 20 grains twice a day in chronic skin diseases as an antisyphilitic and a nervine tonic. The whole herb is used in Ayurvedic preparations to treat epilepsy and mental disorders. In Ayurvedic system of medicine, the whole herb is used in insanity, tuberculous glands, indigestion, bronchitis, spleen diseases, elephantiasis, anaemia, pain in the uterus and vagina, piles, biliousness, epileptic convulsions, asthma, leukoderma, dysentery, vomiting, urinary discharges, pain in the rectum, looseness of the breasts, hemicrania.
The alcoholic extract of powdered caputula contains stigmasterol and β-sitosterol. Eudesmenolides such as frullanolide, 11-alpha-13-dihydro: 3, alpha-7-alpha-dihydroxy: frullanolide, 11-alpha-13-dihydro and two sphaeranthus peptide alkaloids have been isolated from flowers. Eudesmenolide type of sesquiterpene glycoside, sphaeranthanolide, with immunostimulant potential has been isolated from the flowers of S. A novel isoflavone glycoside, 5,4′-dimethoxy-3′-prenylbiochanin 7-O-β-d-galactoside, has also been isolated from leaves. Carbohydrates like arabinose, Carbohydrates such as arabinose, galactose, glucose, fructose, lactose, maltose, raffinose and rhamnose have been reported from leavesof S. The plant is reported to contain deep cherry colored essential oil having methyl chavicol, d-cadinene, α-ionone, p-methoxycinnamaldehyde, α-terpinene, citral, geraniol, geranyl acetate, β-ionone, oscimene, eugenol, sphaeranthene, sphaeranthol, estragole, Indicusene and alkaloid sphaeranthine. A flavanoid C-glycoside, namely, 5-hydroxy-7-methoxy-6-C-glycosylflavone has been isolated from the aerial part of S. Isolation and characterization of sterol glycoside, the β-d-glucoside of (24S0)-24-ethylcholesta-4,22-dien-3-β-ol, has also been reported. Some other sesquiterpene lactones have also been reported to have been isolated from this plant. A bicyclic sesquiterpene lactone has been isolated from petroleum ether extract of aerial parts of S. Eudesmanoids such as 11α,13-dihydro-3α,7α-dihydroxy-4,5-epoxy-6β,7-eudesmanolide, 11α,13-dihydro-7α-acetoxy-3β-hydroxy-6β,7-eudesm-4-enolide and 3-keto-β-eudesmol have been isolated from S. Three 7-hydroxyeudesmanolides and two sesquiterpenoids, cryptomeridiol and 4-epicryptomeridiol, have been isolated from this plant. Odor of herb is slightly aromatic but disappears on long storage.Ī sesquiterpene lactone, 7-hydroxyeudesm-4-en-6,12-olide, and a sesquiterpene acid, 2-hydroxycostic acid, along with the known compounds, β-eudesmol and ilicic acid, have been isolated from the acetone extract of S. Fruits are oblong and have compressed achenes in which pappus is absent. Corolla of female flowers are purple, slender, tubular, minutely two to three toothed corolla of hermaphrodite flowers are purplish white, tubular or funnel-shaped, four to five toothed, anther-base sagittate, auricles acute or tailed, style-armed, filiform, sometimes connate. In each head, the outer flowers are females, few or many, fertile, the central flowers bisexual, fertile or sterile, involucre narrow, bracts paleaceous, spathulate, acute, ciliate receptacle small, naked. Heads of flowers are purple, bracts are short slender and acuminate. Flowers are borne in terminal, solitary, globose, clusters of heads. Leaves are sessile, decurrent, 2–7 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, obovate-oblong, rounded or subacute, glandular-hairy, spinous-serrate or dentate, narrowed at the base and greenish-brown in color. Stems are cylindrical with toothed wings. indicus is much branched, strongly scented, and annual erect with branched tappering roots tap roots.
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