Aneilema scapiflorum Wight

Aneilema scapiflorum Wight is a herb

Aneilema scapiflorum Wight's Root. Tufted herb.

Aneilema scapiflorum Wight's Leaves is glabrous in texture, finely acuminate in shape, size is usually 10-20 by 1-1.6 cm, errect. Narrowly densiform, slightly narrow at the base.

Aneilema scapiflorum Wight's Flowers. Flowers in erect elongate panicles on terminal leafless scapes; scape together with the panicle 20-45 cm long. Sepals 6 mm long, elliptic-oblong, subacute, 3-5 nerved, purple green. Petals blue, 1 cm long, obovate, reticulately veined. Stamens 3 perfect and 3 staminodes. Filaments all bearded with blue hairs; anthers of fertile stamens blue, those of the staminodes yellow.

Aneilema scapiflorum Wight's Seeds 3-gonous in shape, size is usually 1.6 mm. 5 or 6 in a cell, superposed.

The pharmacological actions of Aneilema scapiflorum Wight are Anti-asthmatic, Anti-rheumatic, Antidote, Aphrodisiac, Astringent, Hepatoprotective, Tonic.

The indications of Aneilema scapiflorum Wight are Fever, Colic, Jaundice, Giddiness, Piles, Headache, Infantile Convulsions, Deafness.

The indications of Aneilema scapiflorum Wight's Herb (Powder) are Impotency, Pre-Mature Ejaculation, Spermatorrhoea, Kidney Pain.

The indications of Aneilema scapiflorum Wight's Root are Hydrophobia, Dog Bite, Snake Bite.

The indication of Aneilema scapiflorum Wight's Root Bark(dried) is Asthma.

The temperaments of Aneilema scapiflorum Wight are 2nd order, warm and dry, 1st order warm,second order dry.

Taste: Root Bark: Tasteless.

The substitute of Aneilema scapiflorum Wight is Asparagus adscendens Roxb..

The antidotes of Aneilema scapiflorum Wight are Sodium Chloride, Zingiber officinale Roscoe, Apis mellifera L. (Honey).