WELA (WILD SPIDER PLANT)

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  Cleome gynandra

  Sanskirt name :-  Ajagandha

  Description

Erect annual herb grow up to 1.6m tall strongly branched, with long taproot and few secondary roots; stem densely glandular. Leaves alternate, palmately compound  leaflets are 3 to 7; stipules absent; petiole 2–10 cm long, glandular; leaflets almost sessile, obovate to elliptical or lanceolate, 2–10 cm × 1–4 cm, cuneate at base, rounded to obtuse, acute or acuminate at apex, margins finely toothed, sparsely to distinctly hairy. Inflorescence a terminal raceme up to 30 cm long, bracteate. Flowers bisexual, white or tinged with purple; pedicel 1.5–2.5 cm long; sepals 4, free, ovate to lanceolate, up to 8 mm long; petals 4, elliptical to obovate, up to 1.5 cm long, clawed; androgynophore 1–1.5 cm long; stamens 6, purple; ovary superior, stalked, 2-celled. Fruit a long, narrow, cylindrical capsule up to 12 cm × 1 cm, stalked and beaked, usually green or yellow, dehiscing from below with 2 valves, many-seeded. Seeds subglobose, 1–1.5 mm in diameter, grey to black, irregularly ribbed. Seedling with oblong cotyledons; first leaves 3-foliolate  

Cleome comprises 150–200 species. It is classified in the subfamily Cleomoideae, sometimes considered as a separate family Cleomaceae.Gynandropsis has been merged with Cleome, as the distinguishing character. The spiderplant has a distinct androgynophore with stamens and ovary well beyond the corolla.




Chemical Constituents

This herb are comprised; apegenin,beta - sitosterol, cleogynol, cleomin,glucocapparin,hexcosanal, kaempferol,7 phenoxycoumarin, Lactone - cleome - olide , linolex acid ,myristic acid, oleic acid, palmatic acid, peduletin acid ,viscosin.

As a Medications 

Gastro intestinal disease - A decoction of the leaves or roots is used to tread stomachache and to control constipation 

cough                            - Infusion of seed is used to treat for cough   

analgesic                        - Headaches,neuralgia,rheumatism and other local pain 

others                             -A decoction of the leaves and roots used to uterine complain and easy child birth

                                        it is given during delivery, continuing taking this and during the postpartum period                                      

                                        would help hasten the process of recovery 

                                        The sap of young leave is good for use to treat epileptic-tis and use as a eye 

                                        wash