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Herb : Hound's tongue

Classification

Hounds tongue is an herbaceous plant naturalized in parts of Europe and North America.

It is herbal plant that which is used as remedy for various diseases.

Hounds tongue belongs to genus cynoglossum which has 90 species distributed widely all over the globe.

Mostly hounds tongue is found as weed.

Cynoglossum grows to a height of 45-60 cm and the flowers grow in clusters, blue and pink in colour and 8 mm long.

The leaves are rough and soft from both sides, lanceolate, acute at the base and slightly heart shaped.

Hounds tongue is annual and biennial and the red-purple flowers bloom in the month of May and September.

The cultivation of this plant is widely found near waste lands, wet places and hedges as weed.

Hounds tongue widely grows in meadows, roadsides and forest areas. It requires full or partial shade to grow best.

Leaves and roots.

Hound tongue contains important active chemicals called tumorigenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids.

Hound is administered to possess activities like anodyne, demulcent, astringent.
It is also used in curing cough, catarrhs, hemoptysis, diarrhea, and dysentery.
It is been said that hound tongue externally treats burns, goitre, scrofulous tumours, inflammation, pain, soreness by giving relief.
The bruised leaves can help in removing swelling externally.