
Chaturamulla ചതുരമുല്ല
Botanical name: Myxopyrum serratulum A.W.Hill.
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Hemamalati, Chaturdharalata
Hindi: Peelachameli
Malayalam: Chaturamulla, Chaturavalli
English:
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Throughout Kerala, in evergreen forests at altitudes of 600 t0 900m. A large scandent shrub with 4 angled branches; leaves simple, opposite, obovate, elliptic, serrulate, triplicostate; flowers small, yellowish in auxiliary or terminal trichotomous panicles, stamens 2, attached to the base of the corolla tube; fruits obovoid berries with one or two seeds, seeds erect, testa membranous.
The roots are useful in scabies and prurigo in children. The leaves are astringent, acrid, sweet, thermogenic, anodyne, febrifuge and tonic. They are useful in vitiated conditions of kapha and vata, cough,asthma, rheumatism, cephalalgia, notalgia, consumption, fever, otopathy, neuropathy and cuts and wounds.