Balunakuta
Scientific name: Stachytarpheta indica
Family name: VERBENACEAE
Local name: Balunakuta / Nil nakuta
Description: This an extremely poorly understood taxon. Annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate-ovate, marginal teeth very coarse and obliquely wide spreading. Inflorescence spicate, mostly elongated , few flowered; the flowers sessile or semi-immersed in furrows or excavations in the rachis; flowers opening a few at a time, bluish in colour; fruit schizocarpous, splitting at maturity into 2 1-seeded cocci.
Status: Native
Edible parts: None
Ayurvedic Treatments- Wounds
PARTS USED IN TREATMENT:
Leaves
Whole Plants
RELATED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES;
Anti toxic
Reduces pitta, kapha
