Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants

Chinese Wedelia

Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Botanical name: Wedelia Chinensis Merrill
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Pitabhrnga, Pitabhrngarajah
English: Chinese Wedelia
Hindi: Pilabhangara, Bhanra
Malayalam: Manjakayuniam, Mannakkannunni

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Chinese Wedelia is a tender, spreading, and hairy herb, with the branches usually less than 50 cm long. The leaves are oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 2-4.5 cm in length, and narrowed at both ends. The margins are entire or obscurely toothed; and both surfaces are covered with sharp-pointed, appressed, straight, and stiff hairs. The heads are stalked, about 1 cm in diameter, and yellow. The involucral bracts are oblong-ovate. The ray flowers are 8-12, spreading, about equal to the bracts, and broad; the disk flowers number about 20, and are short, narrow, and pointed. The achenes are nearly cylindric, and hairy.
The Whole plant of Chinese Wedelia is used influenza, measles, diphtheria, pertussis, hypertension and the treatment of Cat poison. Other than this the juice of the plant is used is used for naseum.