Scientific name: Nicotiana tabacum
Family name: SOLANACEAE
English name: Tobacco
Local name: Dum kola
Description: An annual herb, up to 2.5m high; all parts sticky, covered with short viscid-glandular hairs, which exude a yellow secretion containing nicotine. Leaves varied in size, the lower leaves are the largest up to 60 cm long, decurrent at the base, the following leaves decrease in size, the upper one sessile and smallest, oblong- lanceolate or elliptic; petiole short. Inflorescences many flowered. Flowers long trumpet shaped, white-pinkish with pale violet or carmine colored tips; tube yellowish white. Fruit a capsule surrounded by the persistent calyx and with a short apical beak, about 2 cm long. Seeds numerous, very small, ovoid or kidney shaped, brown.
Status: Only under cultivation
Edible parts: Leaves
Ayurvedic Treatments – Arthritis
Rheumatism
Cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection
Paralysis
Epilepsy
Convulsion
Pulmonary disorders
Hemorrhoids
PARTS USED IN TREATMENT:
Leaves
Flowers
Roots
RELATED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES:
Antidote
Analgesic
