Linn.Synonym: J. communis E. Mey.Family: Juncaceae.
Habitat: Eastern Himalayas and Khasi Hills.
English: Rush, Matting Rush.Action: Pith—antilithic, discutient, diuretic, depurative, pectoral. Root—diuretic, especially in strangury.
The leaves gave flavonoids, lutcoline- 7-glucoside, diosmin and hesperidin; aerial parts gave phenolic constituents, effusol and juncusol. Juncusol is antimicrobial. A dihydrodibenzoxepin, isolated from the plant, showed cyto- toxic activity.
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