Family: Lamiaceae
Synonym: Hyptis mariannarum Briq.
Bengali/Vernacular name: Tata tokma.
Tribal name: Thomma (Chakma).
English name: Bachelor’s button, Buttonweed, False ironwort.
Description of the Plant: An erect annual herb, up to 1 m high. Leaves petiolate, petioles 2-3 cm long, lamina 6-10 x 3-5 cm, ovate-oblong, incised-serrate, acute, glabrous. Inflorescence in globose heads, peduncles longer than the floral head; flower white, violet-dotted. Nutlets round-truncate.
Plant parts Used: Leaf, stem, root.
Traditional
Uses: An extract made with the leaves and stems of the plant is taken
twice a day (100 ml amount each time) until the body pain is cured.
A paste made with the leaves and stems of the plant are applied to the cutting
wound once a day for three days to treat it.
A cold water infusion of the crushed leaves is drunk as a remedy for diarrhea.
A decoction of the roots is used in the treatment of amenorrhea.
Juice extracted from the leaves and stems of the plant is taken thrice a day (5
ml amount each time) until the malaria is cured.
Decoction prepared from the leaves and stems of the plant, after adding some
salt it is taken twice a day (100 ml amount each time) until the abdominal pain
and stomachache is cured.
An infusion of the leaves is used as a sedative and calmative, and to reduce
heart palpitations.
Juice extracted from the leaves and stems of the plant are advised to take for
the treatment of cold, and cough.
An extract made with the leaves and stems of the plant, after adding some salt
it is used for gargling four times a day until the toothache is cured.
Distribution: It is found in Chuadanga, Khulna, Kushtia, Mymensingh, and Bagerhat districts.
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