Kalmegh Herbs is a bitter annual (perennial, if maintained) herb, erect, 30 cm to 90 cm in height, with upper part of the stem quadrangular while the lower part is a nearly rounded stem. The Kalmegh Herb is widely distributed throughout plains of India from Uttar Pradesh to Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Our company is instrumental in manufacturing, supplying and exporting Kalmegh Herbs from Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. Customers can avail the Kalmegh Herbs at nominal rates from us.
Uses :
The whole herb is bitter in taste and is source of several diterpenoids of which a bitter water soluble lactone "andrographolide" is important.
The plant is bitter, acrid, cooling, laxative, antipyretic, antiperiodic, anti-inflammatory, expectorant, sudorific, anthelmintic, digestive and stomachic.
It is useful in burning sensation, chronic fever, malaria and intermittent fever, inflammation, cough, bronchitis, skin diseases, intestinal worm, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic, diarrhea, dysentery, hemorrhoids and vitiated condition of pitta.
Part used: dried leaves and tender shoots
Leaves are opposite sessile or subsessile, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 3-8 cm long, acute, glabrous or minutely puberulous beneath and base cuneate, margin slightly undulate.