Tricholepis glaberrima Health Dictionary

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Family: Compositae; Asteraceae.

Habitat: Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Peninsular India.

Ayurvedic: Brahmadandi.

Action: Antiseptic (used in leucoderma), nervine tonic (used in seminal debility), urinary tract disinfectant. Root—bechic.

The plant contains betulin, spinas- terol, stigmasterol, stigma-7-enol and a triterpenoid—cycloart-23-en-3beta, 25-diol.