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Botany name : Eclipta alba
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Whole plant
Constituents : Ecliptine
Action : Alterative, deobstruent,
hepatic and tonic. root and leaf are cholagogue.
Botany name
: Eclipta prostrata
Habit :Herb
Parts used : Whole plant
Action
: Emetic, alterative,
deobstruent, carminative, refrigerant and demulcent.
Botany name
: Eleusine coracana
Habit :Herb
Parts used :Seeds
Constituents : Albuminoids and starch and proteins.
Action :Astringent and nutrient.
Botany name
: Emblica officinalis
Habit
: Tree
Parts used : Fresh and dried fruits, the nut leaves, root bark and
flowers.
Constituents : Fruit are rich in vitamin 'C' and pectin. fruit is edible
and an oil is extracted.
Action : Fresh fruit is refrigerant,
diuretic, laxative, carminative and stomachic. dried fruit is
sour and astringent. flowers are coolig and
aperient. bark is astringent.
Botany name
: Enterrolobium saman
Habit : Tree
Parts used
: Fruit and leaves
Botany name : Ervatamica
coronaria
Habit : Shrub
Parts used : Latex flowers and root.
Constituents : It contains coronaridin, montanine, and terpinoids.
Action : Flowers and roots are
anthelmintic, acrid, purgative and vermicide.
Botany name
: Erythrina indica
Habit : Tree
Parts used : Leaves, flowers and bark
Constituents : Leaves contain two resins a bitter poisonous alkaloid
erithrine.
Action : Bark is antibilious,
expectorant, febrifuge and anthelmintic. leaves are diuretic, laxative emmenagogue and galactagogue.
Botany name
: Eucalyptus globulus
Habit : Tree
Parts used : Dry leaves, gum and oil, distilled from the fresh
leaves.
Constituents : Leaves contain volatile oil.
Action : Leaves are
febrifuge,carminative, analgesic, antiphilogestic and
expectorant. eucalyptus oil is
powerfully antiseptic and disinfectant. eucalyptus increases the flow of saliva, gastric and intential juices
andthus increases appetite and digestion.
Botany name
: Eugenia jambolana
Habit : Tree
Parts used : Fruit, leaves, dried seeds and bark.
Constituents : Seed contains jamboline, phenolic substance, an essential oil,
fat, resin, gallic acid and albumen. bark contains
tannin and kinolic gum.
Action
: Bark leaves and seeds are
astringent, and stomachic. berry is astringent juice of the fruit
is stomachic, astringent, diuretic and demulcent.
Boatany name :
Euphorbia antiquorum
Habit :Small tree
Parts used : Stem, root and root-bark.
Constituents : Dried juice contain euphorbin two resins and gum.
Action : Purgative, emetic,
alterative, stomachic, rubefacient and vesicant
Botany name : Euphorbia nerifolia
Habit : Shrub
Parts used : Root and whole plant.
Constituents : Euphorbon, resin malate of calcium and gum.
Action
: Juice is purgative and
expectorant. root is anti-spasmodic.
Botany name
: Euphorbia tirucalli
Habit : Small shrub
Parts used : Bark and whole plant.
Constituents : Euphobon, gum, resin, caoutchouc, and malate of calcoum.
Action
: Milky juice is in small
doses is purgative in large doses an acrid, counter-irritant and
emetic. externally it is rubifacient.
Botany name
: Evolvus alsinoides
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Whole plant
Constituents : A Yellow fat, an alkaloid, an organic and saline
substances.
Action : Tonic, alterative,
febrifuge, anthelmintic and antiphlogistic.
