Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants
Cup Saucer Plant
Family: Phyllanthaceae (Amla family)
Genus: Breynia
Botanical name: Breynia retusa
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit:
Hindi: Breynia
English: Cup Saucer Plant, Cupped coral-berry tree
Malayalam: Perin-nirouri, Perunirui
Genus: Breynia
Botanical name: Breynia retusa
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit:
Hindi: Breynia
English: Cup Saucer Plant, Cupped coral-berry tree
Malayalam: Perin-nirouri, Perunirui
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Cup Saucer Plant Plant is a shrub with spreading branches, 1-2 m high. Leaves 1.25-2.5 cm long, distichous, broadly elliptic. Flowers small, axillary on filiform pedicels, the males in the lower and females in the upper axils. Male flowers pale yellow. Fruit depressed-globose, 13-17 mm diam.
The plant is astringent to the bowels; useful in inflammations and diseases of the blood. The juice of the stem is used in conjunctivitis. Leaves employed to hasten suppuration.