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<H2>Classification </H2> <IMG SRC="img/phyllanthus-niruri.jpg" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="225" BORDER="0" ALT="Phyllanthus Niruri" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="5"> <UL CLASS="tbl1"> <LI CLASS="t1">Kingdom- Plantae</LI> <LI CLASS="t2">Division- Magnoliophyta </LI> <LI CLASS="t2">Order- Magnoliopsida</LI> <LI CLASS="t2">Family- Pyllanthaceae</LI> <LI CLASS="t2">Genus- Phyllanthus</LI> <LI CLASS="t1">Species- P. niruri </LI> </UL> <H2>History</H2> <P>Stonebreaker belongs to Pyllanthaceae family and relative of spurges and relatively distributed in tropical areas.<BR> </P> <P>Usually phyllanthus species are found in rain forests of amazon, Bahamas, china and southern India.<BR></P> <P>The plant has wide history of medicinal uses for different ailments. <BR></P> <H2>Plant Description</H2> <P>Phyllanthus niruri is small, erect and annula herb growing to 30-40 cm tall and flourish like a weed.<BR></P> <P>The leaves of this plant are numerous borne on the stem, sessile, elliptic, oblong and obtuse. <BR></P> <P>The flowers are yellow, axillary and hermaphrodite which grow as two-three male flowers and one female flower. <BR></P> <P>The fruit is small capsule, 2.5 in diameter and slightly lobed.<BR></P> <H2>Cultivation</H2> <P>Phyllanthus niruri is common kharif weed mainly splurge in rainy season and found in wastelands, cultivated fields.<BR></P> <P>Phyllantus comprises of various species of shrubs, trees and annual or biennial shrub cultivated and distributed all over tropical and subtropical regions in the world.<BR></P> <H2>Parts Used</H2> <P>Whole plant<BR> </P> <H2>Constituents </H2> <P>Alkaloids, astragalin, brevifolin, carboxylic acids, corilagin, cymene, ellagic acid, ellagitannins, gallocatechins, geraniin, hypophyllanthin, lignans, lintetralins, lupeols, methyl salicylate, niranthin, nirtetralin, niruretin, nirurin, nirurine, niruriside, norsecurinines, phyllanthin, phyllanthine, phyllanthenol, phyllochrysine, phyltetralin, repandusinic acids, quercetin, quercetol, quercitrin, rutin, saponins, triacontanal, and tricontanol <BR></P> <H2>Uses</H2> <P>Excerpts from history manifest numerous medicinal uses of stone breaker and thought to possess various properties like anti-lithic, anti-hepatotoxic, anti-hypertensive, anti-HIV anti-hepatitis-B. <BR> </P> <P>The plant has long been employed as remedy for kidney diseases. <BR> </P> <P>It is been reported that phyllantus niruri exhibits anti-hepatitis B activity and has been helpful in treating hepatitis B infection. <BR> </P> <P>The effect of phyllanthus niruri has also seen on HIV virus as it inhibits the growth of virus.<BR></P> <P>The other actions of phyllantus niruri are reported as anti-diabetic, anti-spasmodic, analgesic and anti-malarial. <BR></P> <H2>Names </H2> <UL CLASS="txt"> <LI>Assamese- Holpholi</LI> <LI>Poram-lokhi </LI> <LI>Bengali- Noar </LI> <LI>Hindi- Chalmeri, harfarauri </LI> <LI>Kannada- Kirunelli </LI> <LI>Konkani- Bhuin-avalae</LI> <LI>Malayalam- Kizhanelli, Nellipuli, Arinelli</LI> <LI>Mahrathi- Ray avail</LI> <LI>Oriya Narakoli</LI> <LI>Sanskrit- Bhoodatreo</LI> <LI>Tamil- Arunelli, Kilanelli</LI> <LI>Telegu- Ratsavusirike </LI> </UL> <!--ftr--> <DIV ID="footer"><HR><BR> Copyright &copy; 2006-2009, Spices and Medicinal Herbs</DIV> <SCRIPT SRC="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" TYPE="text/javascript"> </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-5342098-1"; urchinTracker(); </SCRIPT> </BODY> </HTML>