Eclipta prostrata - Trailing eclipta

❏ Binomial Name : Eclipta prostrata (L.) L.

❏ Synonym : Verbesina prostrata,Eclipta alba,Cotula alba

❏ Family : Compositae

❏ Common Name : Trailing eclipta

❏ Tamil Name : Karisilanganni

❏ Hindi Name : Madhukar

❏ IUCN status: Least Concern 

Eclipta prostrata Botanical Description

Herbs, caespitose, up to 25 cm high; stems terete, appressed strigose. Leaves simple, opposite, 1-3 x 0.2-0.5 cm, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, acute or subacuminate at apex, cuneate at base, entire, densely strigose, sessile or subsessile. Heads 4-5 mm across; peduncles appressed strigose, 2-4 mm long. Involucral bracts in 2 rows; outer bracts 5, ovate-elliptic, ca 3.5 x 2.5 mm, subacuminate at apex, cuneate at base, strigose outside, glabrous inside, with 9 veins; inner bracts 5, elliptic-obovate, ca 3 x 1.5 mm, subacuminate at apex, cuneate at base, sparsely strigose outside, glabrous inside, with 4 veins. Ray florets 2-3- seriate, female, ca 4 mm long. Sepals minute, ovate, acute, membranous. Corolla ca 2.5 mm long; tube ca 0.8 mm long; limb ca 1.6 mm long, with 2 unequal, obtuse-tipped lobes at apex. Disk florets numerous, ca 3 mm long. Corolla campanulate, ca 1.6 mm long; lobes 4, ovate, ciliate on margin. Stamens 4 or 5, sagittate. Style branches 2, pubescent. Ovary 1.1-1.2 mm long, hairy at apex. Palea ca 2.2 mm long, hairy in the upper two-third portion. Achenes yellowish brown to brown, oblong-turbinate, dorsiventrally compressed and sharply angled, hairy at apex; pappus of partially or completely united scales forming a cone at the apex. Fl. &Fr.: Throughout the year.

Eclipta prostrata Medicinal uses

❀ The young leaves are used as a medicine for scorpion sting. The leaves are cooked and eaten as greens. The plant is believed to have anti aging properties.

❀ The leaves are used to treat fevers, eye diseases, asthma, bronchitis, liver problems, diarrhoea and weak bladder

❀ Leaves decoction is used to treat cancer

❀ The stem and leaves are used to treat anaemia and dysentery

❀ They are applied externally as an antiseptic to ulcers and wounds, especially in cattle

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