Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Guizotia abyssinica (L.f.) Cass. [Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu. "Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian Medicinal Plants. (1918)].
Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Guizotia
abyssinica (L.f.) Cass. [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
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653. Guizotia
abyssinica (L.f.) Cass. e.f.b.l, hi. 308.
Syn. : —
Yerbesina sativa, Roxb. 606.
Habitat : — A native
of Tropical Africa, cultivated in various
parts of India.
Vern. :— Ramtil
; Kalatil (H. B. and Bomb.) ; Valesulu f Tel) ;
Karmadoo
(Mysore).
A stout, erect
annual, smooth or scabrid, pubescent upwards.
Leaves 3-oin.,
sessile, half-amplexicaul, linear, ovate-lanceolate,
lanceolate-oblong,
or subcordate, serrate, obtuse. Heads i-lin.
diam., peduncles
naked, l-2in. Involucral bracts 5 ; outer
broadly elliptic
or ovate, obtuse, green ; ligules few, broad.
Achenes dorsally
pressed, glabrous, tip rounded, yielding a
bland oil.
Use : — The oil
is sweet, and may be used for the same
pharmaceutical
purposes as sesamum oil (Dymock).
The achenes
contain from 40 to 45 per cent, of a yellow sweet oil. According
to Leather seeds
from cultivated Indian plants yield on an average 40 per cent,
of oil. The oil
is used in soap-making and as a substitute for Linseed oil ;
in India it is
occasionally employed as a substitute for ghee.
[Pankaj Oudhia’s Comment: As
Adivasi Medicine it is important ingredient of hundreds of Traditional Herbal
Formulations. Unfortunately not much work has been done on its different
aspects by modern researchers. I have documented Traditional Knowledge about
this species. Please see Table Guizo-1 to Guizo-115 for exhaustive information
on this species.]
Crossley and Le
Sueur in 1898 examined four samples of East Indian oil :
Specific gravity
at 15*5°, 9248—0*9263 ; solidifies below zero ; saponification
value, 1889—
192*2; iodine value, 1266 — 1338 i Reichert-Meissl value, O'll—
0*63; Maumene
test, 81° ; butyro refractometer, 63° at 40°. Fatty scids and
unsapomfiable,
per cent. 94*11 ; iodine value, 1475. The oil has slight siccative
powers and
gained 7*2 per cent, in weight in fifteen days.
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Oudhia, Pankaj (2013).
Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Guizotia abyssinica (L.f.) Cass. [Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu.
"Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian
Medicinal Plants. (1918)]. www.pankajoudhia.com
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