COMPARATIVE ANATOMICAL AND HISTOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF EUPHORBIA HIRTA L. AND EUPHORBIA THYMIFOLIA L. (STEM)
AbstractDugdhika is one of the important raw drug used in Ayurveda. E. thymifolia is used as the genuine source plant of drug Dugdhika, it posses properties like, used for skin disorders, sexual disorders, effective drug for asthma., diarrhoea, dysentery. The present study deals with the comparative study of morphological, anatomical, histochemical characters of E. hirta and E. thymifolia. Two plants show similarities and differences between them at morphological, anatomical and histochemical levels. Morphologically these two plants show differences in many characters. But histological studies of both plants are almost similar. The histochemical study of both plants shows differences. This study helps to identify the genuine plants of the drug Dugdhika for the preparation of Ayurvedic medicine
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K. Sereena* and T. A. Shahida
Department of Botany, MES Asmabi College, P. Vemballur, Thrissur (Dt), Kerala, India
sereenamajeed@gmail.com
18 June, 2014
28 August, 2014
15 November, 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.6(2).772-77
01 February, 2015
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