Elephant’s Foot
The scientific name of Elephant's Foot: Elephantopus Scaber Linn.
Name of Elephant's Foot in different languages:-
Sanskrit: Gojihva, Kharaparnini
Hindi: Gobhi
Malayalam: Anachuvadi-ആനച്ചുവടി
Useful plant parts: Whole plant
Plant description:-
Elephant foot or Elephantopus Scaber is an erect herb up to 80 cm height; leaves dark green spread on ground roundly resemble with the footprint of elephant, so it is named as Elephant foot, and sized to 5 to 38 cm long and 1 to 6 cm wide; flowers violet in color and size 7 to 9 mm long, fruit is about 4 mm long, it commonly occurs in grasslands, roadsides, along fields, below 1500 m altitude.
Leaf Arrangement
| Shape-lanceolate | Margin-Irregular | Venation-Pinnate |
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Medicinal uses:
Anti-tumor, Traditional medicine, Fever Asthma, to make tonics.
Chemical content:
Elephantopin.
How to prepare medicines:
The whole plant ground to a paste and then applied the toxic wounds to neutralise poisonous elements.
Used as an ingredient in
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