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Malitha<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Scientific name: Woodfordia fruticosa<\/span>
\nFamily name: LYTHRACEAE<\/span>
\nEnglish name: Fire-flame bush<\/span>
\nLocal name: Malitha<\/span>
\nDescription: Shrubs, 1-5 m tall; stems and branches pendulous, long, pubescent when young, becoming glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-14 \u00d7 1-4 cm, abaxially sparsely to densely tomentose and orange to black glandular punctate, base rounded to sub cordate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences condensed axillary shoots of 1-15 flowers; floral tube light red, red-orange, or deep red, greenish, 9-15 mm. Capsules elongate, elliptic. Seeds reddish brown, about 1.5 mm diameter.<\/span>
\nStatus: Native<\/span>
\nEdible parts: none<\/span>
\nAyurvedic <\/span>Treatments – <\/span>Hemorrhoids<\/span>
\nLiver diseases<\/span>
\nDysentery<\/span>
\nSnake bites<\/span>
\nDropsy<\/span>
\nSpleen disorders<\/span>
\nFevers<\/span>
\nAsthma<\/span>
\nFistula<\/span>
\nHeart diseases<\/span>
\nLung diseases<\/span>
\nInsanity<\/span>
\nApoplexy<\/span>
\nNervous system disorders<\/span>
\nLeprosy<\/span>
\nBlood diseases<\/span><\/p>\n

PARTS USED IN TREATMENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Leaves<\/span>
\nFlowers<\/span><\/p>\n

RELATED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Pacifies vitiated kapha and Pitta Doshas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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