classification of Peganum harmala
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Sapindales
Family: Nitrariaceae
Species: P. harmala
Common name:- harmer, isband, gandhya, wild rue.
Nature:- it is a shrub about 35-85 cm high.
Leaves:-leaves are mostly 5 to 8 cm long, which is divided into a large indefinite narrow segments.
Flower:-flowers are mostly in 2-3 cm diameter, white in colour which is single in axiles of leaves.
Fruits:- fruits are capsular,having sphere in shape and almost 5-8 mm in diameter,deeply lobed.seeds 3-4 mm long , brownish of , of various shapes and with rediculated seed coat.
Medicinal uses:-the seeds contain several alkaloids and are useful in asthma,fever, jaundice and complains of difficult and menstruation. They are used also as narcotic and emetic.
The seeds yield a red dye . Powdered roots mixed in mustard oil kill lice in hair. The plant, kept in a room repels mosquitoes
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