Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants
Chinese Rain Bell
Family: Acanthaceae
Botanical name: Strobilanthes hamiltoniana
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit:
English: Chinese Rain Bell
Hindi:
Malayalam: Palkurinji
Botanical name: Strobilanthes hamiltoniana
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit:
English: Chinese Rain Bell
Hindi:
Malayalam: Palkurinji
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Chinese Rain Bell is readily identified by the much branched, diffuse inflorescences bearing purple flowers, and the secondary veins which protrude from the leaf surface. It is a soft stemmed evergreen shrub often seen as an open shrub to 1 to 2m high.
The whole plant of the Chinese Rain Bell is used for the treatment for itching due to spider poison.