Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants
Cryptolepis buchananii
Family: Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family)
Genus: Cryptolepis
Botanical name: Cryptolepis buchananii
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Krishnasariva
Hindi: Kala bel, Karanta
English: Wax Leaved Climber, Indian sarsaparilla
Malayalam: Katupaalvalli
Genus: Cryptolepis
Botanical name: Cryptolepis buchananii
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Krishnasariva
Hindi: Kala bel, Karanta
English: Wax Leaved Climber, Indian sarsaparilla
Malayalam: Katupaalvalli
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Twining, evergreen, glabrous shrub; leaves simple, opposite, petiole 1.25 cm, lamina 7.5-15.0 em by 2.5-6.2 cm, leathery, shining above, acuminate; cymes very shortly predicted, paniculate; flowers white, tubular, 1.25 cm in diameter; follicles 5-10 cm long, straight, rigid; seeds compressed.
The root, santal, latex of Wax Leaved Climber is used for body pain, dysentery, blood purifying, snake bite and treatment of bone fracture by tribal people in East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.