Pluchea indica

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Pluchea indica

Other Names : Beluntas, Baccharis indica, Khlu, Indian camphorweed, Indian fleabane, Indian pluchea, luntas, kayu, pras anbok, cuc tan, cay luc, tu bi, kalapini, Conyza corymbosa, Conyza foliolosa, Conyza indica, Conyza indica indica, Conyza indica integerrima, Erigeron denticulatus, Eupatorium foliolosum
Pluchea indica is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae. It is native to parts of Asia and Australia, and it is widespread in the Pacific Islands as an introduced and often invasive species. This species is a branching shrub up to 2 meters tall. The toothed oval leaf blades are papery but not thin, and often have a fine coating of hairs.

Special Precautions of Pluchea indica

  • Pregnant Women are prohibited from consuming this plant
  • It can reduce woman's fertility.

Health Benefits and Uses of Pluchea indica

It is one of the most well-known indigenous medicinal plants of Southeast Asia and other warm climate countries. In Thailand it is traditionally used as folk medicine for the treatment of kidney stones (stem), hemorrhoid (bark), inflammation, lumbago, and leucorrhoea (leaves). Consumption of Khlu leaves as a culinary herb offers significant health-promoting compounds, such as, dietary fiber, calcium, β-carotene, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid and quercetin.

  • Digestive Disorders in Children : Wash 3-5 leaves beluntas, knead, mix with porridge or rice strain teams, stir, and eat. Perform each meal. Alternatively, squeeze 10 leaves, add 1 tablespoon of honey, and mix well. Combine this mixture on the team or porridge rice strain to be given with each meal.
  • Rheumatic pain : Take 15 grams of root Beluntas, wash and boil with water and drink the water.
  • Eliminates body odor : Leaves and flowers of beluntas contain alkali that can be used as an antiseptic. Rinse leaves beluntas 10-15 and then eat as a salad or steamed. Perform routine 3 times a day.
  • In addition to eliminating body odor Beluntas leaves also can eliminate bad breath. For those who do not like, can by drinking boiled water leaves every morning and evening.
  • To lower body temperature, so much sweat that comes out and the body temperature to drop.
  • Lowering Heat : Brewed beluntas like brewing tea leaves, then drink until normal body temperature.
  • may hold the key to a cure for amoebiasis, a disease caused by the parasite Entamoeba histolytica that mostly hits the poor. A team of researchers from Jadavpur University and Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, both in Kolkata, have isolated a compound from the root of this plant that stops the growth of the parasite.
  • Diabetes : The plant contains the compounds β-sitosterol and stigmasterol, which have antidiabetic properties. A promising approach for treating diabetes mellitus (DM) is to decrease postprandial hyperglycaemia by suppressing carbohydrate digestion using α-glucosidase inhibitors…. Pluchea indica leaf extracts possess inhibitory activity against intestinal maltase.( Maltase catalyzes the hydrolysis of maltose to the simple sugar glucose. ) This study provides basic information for further examination of the suitability of P. indica as a functional food and medicinal supplement for the treatment and prevention of diabetes.”
  • Anti-tuberculosis : Pluchea indica (leaf), Pluchea indica (flower) exhibited antituberculosis activity, with MIC (minimum inhibitory concentration) of 800 μg/ml.”
  • The β-sitosterol isolated from the root extract can also neutralize the venom of Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) and the monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia)
  • Cancer : Migration of cancer cells was suppressed by PIRE (P. Indica root Extract). The in vitro anti-cancer effects of crude aqueous extracts of P. indica leaf and root indicate that it has sufficient potential to warrant further examination and development as a new anti-cancer agent.

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