Grangea maderaspatana
StarGrangea maderaspatana
Synonyms: Cotula maderaspatana, Cotula sphaeranthus, Grangea hispida, Grangea mucronata, Grangea glandulosa, Grangea aegyptiaca, Grangea adansonii, Grangea sphaeranthus, Tanacetum humile, Artemisia maderaspatana, Perdicium tomentosum, Grangea strigosa, Ethulia nepalensis, Tanacetum aegyptiacum
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In Indian traditional medicine, including Ayurveda, Grangea maderaspatana (‘mukundi’) is valued as a stomachic, antispasmodic and emmenagogue: the aromatic herb is used for indigestion and colic, applied for rheumatism and muscular pain, and given for earache, painful and obstructed menstruation and other gynaecological complaints (Khare, 2007). Comparable uses are recorded in folk medicine elsewhere in tropical Asia and Africa.
Botanical Description
Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir., commonly called Madras carpet, is a soft, aromatic annual herb of the daisy family (Asteraceae). It is suberect to prostrate, much-branched and somewhat woolly, with deeply pinnately lobed (lyrate) leaves whose terminal lobe is the largest. The small, button-like flower heads are solitary and terminal, globose and yellow, composed entirely of disc florets, the outer female and the inner bisexual, and are followed by tiny ribbed cypselae crowned by a short cup-like pappus. A weed of moist ground, riverbanks, fallow fields and the drying margins of tanks and ponds, it is widespread across the tropics and subtropics of India and the rest of Asia and into Africa, flowering chiefly in the cool season.
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