Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. - golden eye-grass
Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. - golden eye-grass
MH281 : Curculigo orchioides Gaertn.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 500 |
| Synonym | : | Curculigo brevifolia Dryand. ex W.T.Aiton.;
Curculigo densa W.Bull.;
Curculigo firma Kotschy & Peyr.;
Curculigo malabarica Wight.;
Curculigo orchioides var. minor Benth.;
Curculigo pauciflora Zipp. ex Span.;
Curculigo petiolata Royle.;
Curculigo stans Labill.;
Franquevillea major Zoll. ex Kurz.;
Gethyllis acaulis Blanco.;
Hypoxis dulcis Steud. ex Baker.;
Hypoxis minor Seem., nom. illeg.;
Hypoxis orchioides (Gaertn.) Kurz.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | golden eye-grass, xian mao, weevil-wort, black musli, Kali musli, Kali Musali |
| Plant Family | : | Hypoxidaceae |
| Description | : | Small herbs, rhizome to 15 cm long, oblong, perennial. Leaves 10-15 x 2 cm, lanceolate, plicate, base sheathing, pilose, subsessile. Perianth yellow, 1.5 cm across; tube 3 cm long, narrow, sparsely pilose; stamens 6, filaments erect; ovary 3-celled, ovules many, villous. Fruit baccate; seeds subglobose. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | aphrodisiac, immunostimulant, Hepatoprotective, anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic activities;
The rhizomes of the plants are used for the treatment of decline in strength, jaundice and asthma. According to Ayurveda, root is heating, aphrodisiac, alternative, appetizer, fattening and useful in treatment of piles, biliousness, fatigue, blood related disorders etc. According to Unani system of medicine, root is carminative, tonic, aphrodisiac, anti-pyretic and useful in bronchitis, ophthalmia, indigestion, vomiting, Diarrhea, lumbago, gonorrhea, gleet, hydrophobia, joint pains etc. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Curculigoside A; Curculigoside B; Curculigoside C; Curculigoside D; Curculigine A; Curculigine D; corchioside A; hentriacontanol; lycorine; aliphatic MeO-ketone; curculigol;
Curculigosaponin A;
Curculigosaponin B;
Curculigosaponin C;
Curculigosaponin D;
Curculigosaponin E;
Curculigosaponin F;
Curculigosaponin G;
Curculigosaponin H;
Curculigosaponin I;
Curculigosaponin J;
Curculigosaponin K;
Curculigosaponin L;
Curculigosaponin M; daucosterol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Lycorine; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229364
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Golden%20Eye%20Grass.html
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20619136 |
| Reference | : | ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697 ~ Pranali Pandit, Anita Singh, A. R. Bafna, P. V. Kadam and M. J. Patil; "Evaluation of Antiasthmatic Activity of Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. Rhizomes"; Indian J Pharm Sci (2008); 70(4): 440-444 PMID : 20046767 ~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151 ~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320 ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ R.N. Kale, R.N. Patil and R.Y. Patil; "Asthma and Herbal Drugs"; IJPSR (2010); 1(12): 37-42 PMID : ~ Omolola Temitope Fatokun, Tosin Ejiro Wojuola, Kevwe Benefit Esievo and Oluyemisi Folashade Kunle; "Medicinal plants used in the management of Asthma: A review"; EJPMR (2016); 3(7): 82-92 PMID : ~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID : ~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Nie Y, Dong X, He Y, Yuan T, Han T, Rahman K, Qin L, Zhang Q.; "Medicinal plants of genus Curculigo: traditional uses and a phytochemical and ethnopharmacological review."; J Ethnopharmacol (2013); 147(3): 547-63 PMID : 23562803 ~ Kumari Sangeeta and Singh D.C.; "MUSALI - A DIVINE HERB WITH ITS MEDICINAL USES"; Int. J. Ayur. Pharma Research (2017); 5(4): 84-88 PMID : ~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID : ~ Das, DC.; Sinha, NK.; Chattopadhyay JC.; Das M. and Samanta P.; "The use of medicinal plants for the treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in south west Bengal of India"; International Journal of Phytomedicine (2013); 5: 14-17 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Liliidae |
| Order | : Liliales |
| Family | : Hypoxidaceae |
| Genus | : Curculigo Gaertn. - curculigo |
| Species | : Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. - golden eye-grass |