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Name: Fumaria Indica

Other Names: Fumitory, Pitpapra, khetpapra, Parpata

Description: Fumaria indica is found throughout India and is one of the more commonly used herbs in Indian medicine. The plant is sold under the name pitpapra in Ayurvedic bazaars and used in the preparation of various traditional formulae such as parpatadya kawatha and parpatadya arista. It is also used in the Unani system of medicine and incorporated into trifala shahtara.
Habitat

The plant is distributed throughout India, particularly on the banks of the Ganges and in the Himalayas up to an altitude of 2700 m. It is also distributed in the higher elevations of the Mysore plateau and Nilgiris. It is also found in Europe, Africa and many other Asian countries.
Botanical description

It is an annual, diffuse herb, up to 30 cm high, with grooved branchlets (Plate 29). The leaves are pale green, 2-3 pinnatisect, 5-7 cm long. Flowers are asymmetrical, pale pink or white with purple tips, in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, with a filiform style and a two-lobed stigma. The calyx consists of two Ian ceo late sepals which are much smaller than the corolla tube. The fruit is a small, indehiscent nutlet, rugose when dry, rounded at the top with two pits and containing one seed.
Parts used

Whole plant.
Traditional and modern use

Fumaria indica is used in aches and pains, diarrhoea, fever, influenza and liver complaints. The herb mixed with honey mar be taken internally to prevent vomiting. A cold infusion of the plant is used to treat wasting diseases of children and to help cooling during fever and in the treatment of constipation and dyspepsia. It is used as a blood purifier for skin diseases and applied externally in leucoderma and as a fomentation for swollen joints. The dried plant is also used as an anthelmintic, diuretic and diaphoretic and, in combination with black pepper, for jaundice.

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