Malabar Catmint
Scientific name of Malabar Catmint: Anisomeles malabarica / Anisomeles salviifolia
Name of Malabar Catmint in different languages:-
English: Catmint, Malabarica
Sanskrit: Sprikka, Mahadronah-महाद्रोण, Vaikunthah-वैकुंठ
Hindi: Gopoli, Codhara
Tamil: Peyimarutti
Malayalam: Perumtumpa-പെരുംതുമ്പ, Karimtumba-കരിംതുമ്പ
Plant description:
Malabar Catmint is a perennial shrub, found in all over India, grows as a weed, and grows up to 2 m tall. Branches are many, hairy, and somewhat sub-quadrangular. Leaves are velvety, ovate to oblong, rounded at base, acute at apex, size up to 8 cm long and 3 cm broad, Inflorescence is a single terminal spike, up to 1.8 cm long, flower are lilac to pale blue, found throughout the year.
Useful plant parts:
Whole plant
Leaf Arrangement
| Shape- oblong | Margin-Serrated | Venation-reticulated |
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Medicinal uses:
To treat various infectious diseases, as a wound healer, carminative, anorexia, swelling, rheumatism, astringent, febrifuge, fevers and the whole plant is used as a tonic.
Chemical contents:
Anti-bacterial, Anti-allergic, alkaloids, tannins, saponins, flavonoids, glycosides.
It is used as an ingredient to prepare the Ayurveda medicines like:
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