Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Fumaria parviflora, Lamk. [Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu. "Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian Medicinal Plants. (1918)]

Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Fumaria parviflora, Lamk. [Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu. "Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian Medicinal Plants. (1918)]

Pankaj Oudhia

Introduction

Based on Ethnobotanical surveys since year 1990 in different parts of India Pankaj Oudhia has documented vital information about Medicinal Plants mentioned in the famous publication by Kirtikar and Basu (1918). Through this research document Pankaj Oudhia has tried to present original document with additional notes. For complete paper with pictures, Interactive Tables, Video and Audio clips please visit pankajoudhia.com

For original publication by Kirtikar and Basu (1918) please visit https://archive.org/details/indianmedicinalp01kirt

69. Fumaria parviflora, Lamk. h.f.b.i., i. 128.

Syn. : — F. officinalis, Bedd.

'Sanskrit) Parpat.

Vern. : — Pitpapada, (Hind. Dec.) ; Ban-sulpha (Beng.) ;

Pittapapado (Guj.); Khasudlio (Dr. Shah); Kshetra Parputi

(Hindi); Shahatara, Shatra (Pers., Sind.) ; Tura (Tarn.); Cha-

tarashi (Tel.) Khairuwa (Kumaon.)

Habitat : — Indo-Gangetic plain, lower Himalaya and Nilghiri

Mts. : a weed of cultivation. Gujarat and the Konkan.

An annual glabrous herb, pale green, much-branched.

Stem diffuse, 4-24 in. Root-stock usually perennial. Leaves

pinnately divided ; leaflets deeply-lobed ; segments very narrow,

flat, lobed or entire. Flower pale pink or white, tips purple, J-§-

in. long, in numerous, short racemes, 1-2 in.; bracts lanceolate,

outer petals dissimilar, upper one broad, concave, produced at the

base, in a short rounded spur, less than |- the length of the petal ;

lower one flat, narrow. Inner petals narrow, clawed, keeled

(Collett). Sepals lanceolate, much smaller than the coronal-tube.

Pedicels exceeding the bracts. Lower set of stamens spurred at

the base, the spur projecting inside the petal-spur. Fruit, a very

small globose, 1-seeded nutlet, rugose, when dry, rounded at the

top, with two pits.

Pittapapada is found as a weed, usually cultivated in fields

in the Dekkan, the Konkan and Sindh. Described by Dalzell

and by Woodrow. It has been found by Jay a Krishna Indraji

at Porebunder.

Part used: — The entire plant, except the root.

[Pankaj Oudhia’s Comment: Fumaria root is used both internally as well as externally in treatment of more than 30 diseases. I have documented information about over 500 Traditional Herbal Formulations in which the root is added as Primary ingredient, over 800 Formulations in which root is added as secondary ingredient. For complete list of these Formulations please see Table F-2.]

Uses: — The dried plant [Pankaj Oudhia’s Comment: Please read dried as well as fresh plant] is regarded as efficacious in low

Fever [Pankaj Oudhia’s Comment: Also for unexplained fever specially evening fever.], and is also used as an anthelmintic [Pankaj Oudhia’s Comment: Due to this property the Healers expertise in treatment of Leucoderma or Vitiligo use it frequently.], diuretic [Pankaj Oudhia’s Comment: With much precaution], diaphoretic

and aperient, and to purify the blood in skin diseases [Pankaj Oudhia’s Comment:. I have documented 3000 cases of Psoriasis from Central India successfully managed by Fumaria based Formulations.] (Baden-

Powell).

Along with black pepper [Pankaj Oudhia’s Comment: Black Pepper can be substituted with other herbs], it is used in the treatment of ague.

(Hoyle). Mahomedan writers describe the plant, as diuretic and

alterative, aperient and expectorant. (Dymock.)

It has been prescribed by Dr. T. M. Shah of Junagadh

usefully as a tonic in Dyspepsia and in mild fever.

N. o. ckucifer^:. 87

Dr. Thornton is of opinion that the drug is useful in leprous

affections.

The authors of the Pharmaeographia Indica describe the

drug as beneficial in dyspepsia due to torpidity of the intestines

and as a valuable remedy in scrofulous skin diseases,

Citation

Oudhia, Pankaj (2013). Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Fumaria parviflora Lamk. [Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu. "Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian Medicinal Plants. (1918)]. www.pankajoudhia.com