Snake Jasmine (जूहीपानी)

Common name: Snake Jasmine (जूहीपानी)

Scientific name:Rhinacanthus nasutus
Family: Acanthaceae

Plant Characters:

👉slender, erect, branched, somewhat hairy shrub 1–2 m in height.
👉The leaves are oblong, 4–10 cm in length, and narrowed and pointed at both ends.
👉The inflorescence is a spreading, leafy, hairy panicle with the flowers usually in clusters.
👉The calyx is green, hairy, and about 5 mm long.
👉The corolla-tube is greenish, slender, cylindric, and about 2 cm long.
👉The flowers is 2-lipped; the upper lip is white, erect, oblong or lancelike, 2-toothed at the apex, and about 3 mm in both length and width; and the lower lip is broadly obovate, 1.1-1.3 cm in both measurements, 3-lobed, and white, with a few, minute, brownish dots near the base.
👉 The fruit (capsule) is club-shaped and contains 4 seeds.
🌱Medicinal uses:
(⚠️Warning: Unverified information)
📌In India the fresh root and le
📌The seeds also araves, bruised and mixed with lime juice, are a useful remedy for ringworm and other skin affections.e efficacious in ringworm.

📌The root-bark is a remedy for dhobie’s itch.
📌In Sind it is said to possess extraordinary aphrodisiacal powers, the roots boiled in milk being much employed by Hindu practitioners.
📌The roots are believed in some parts of India to be an antidote to the bites of poisonous snakes.