Botanical Name: Onosma bracteatum
Sanskrit Name: Gojihva, Gaozaban
English Name: Sedge                      
Family: Boraginaceae               

Description of Onosma bracteatum:

Found abundantly in Northwestern Himalayas from Kashmir up to 3,500 - 4,500 meters in height. The stem is simple, hairy, arising from a cluster of radical leaves, which are lanceolate and with conspicuous hairy pallid bases. The leaves are with evident veins. The cauline leaves are lanceolate. The flowers are blue or purple, trumpet-shaped, in dense, silky, glomaerate clusters. The nut-lets are grey, coarsely rugose and tuberculate.

Medicinal Uses:

The drug is used as tonic, alterative, demulcent, diuretic and is considered cooling. It is useful as a spasmolytic.

Toxicology:

No adverse effect was reported on use of this plant as medicine.

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