Parthenium hysterophorus - Carrot Grass

❏ Binomial Name : Parthenium hysterophorus L.

❏ Synonym : Argyrochaeta bipinnatifida,Echetrosis pentasperma,Villanova bipinnatifida

❏ Family : Compositae

❏ Common Name : Carrot Grass

❏ Tamil Name : Parthenium

❏ Hindi Name : Gajar Ghas

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Parthenium hysterophorus Botanical Description

Erect herbs. Leaves alternate, deeply pinnatisect, lobes 7-10 x 1 cm, oblong-lanceolate, apex acute, base decurrent, entire, pubescent. Heads in terminal, lax panicles; bracts 2-seriate, to 3 x 1.5 mm, ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Panicle terminal crowded, with the numerous hemispherical pentagonal capitulums, from 3 to 5mm in diameter and in short hail peduncle from 3 to 20mm in lengths. Bracts of the involucre oval and long from 1 to 3mm, the lower face covered with glandular hairs or hairless. 5 external female flowers with ligule, arranged in pentagon. The ligule is white, with 5 teeth, long from 0,5 to 0,7mm and wide from 0,5 to 1mm. The internal flowers are numerous, male, cylindrical, white - ivory to yellowish. Akene black, ovoid, 2mm in length and 1,5mm of wide, hairy in the summit carrying a pappus of 3 or 4 membraneous scales hooked, 0,5mm in lengths. Fl. &Fr.: May-March.

Parthenium hysterophorus Medicinal uses

❀This weed is considered to be a cause of allergic respiratory problems, asthma, bronchitis contact dermatitis, mutagenicity in human and livestock. Regular contact with the plant, usually over a prolonged period, produces allergenic dermatitis and asthma in humans.

❀Parthenium hysterophorus used in many medicinal treatments of skin inflammation, rheumatic pain, diarrhoea, urinary tract infections, dysentery, malaria and neuralgia.

❀ The decoction of Parthenium hysterophorus has been used in traditional medicine to treat fever, diarrhoea, neurologic disorders, urinary tract infections, dysentery, malaria and also used as emmenagogue.

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