ACALYPHA INDICA

Plant Name: ACALYPHA INDICA

English Name: Indian Acalypha,

Common / Local Name:

Copperleaf, Indian-nettle Acalypha, Calypha ciliata , Canescens, Spicata Forsk,
Bengali: Muktajhuri;
Gujarati : Vanchhi-kanto, Dadano;
Hindi: Kuppi, Khokli; Kannada: Kuppigidda, Chalmari, Tuppakire;
Konkan: Kunkmiphal, Kolea xhempddi;
Malayalam: Kuppamani;
Marathi: Khokla, Khajoti;
Oriya: Indramaris;
Tamil: Kuppameni, Poonamayakki;
Telugu: Kuppichettu, Moor-kondachettu, Pappantichettu, Mulakan-dachettu;
Sanskrit: Harita-manjari, Muktavarchas, Rudra, Aritamanjari ;


Family: Euphorbiaceae (Spurge)

Uses:

According to Guerrero, the juice of the root and leaves is given to children as an expectorant and emetic in bronchitis, also being administered in decoction. The leaves, in decoction or powder form, possess laxative properties. Mixed with garlic they are used as an anthelmintic. Mixed with common salt, they are applied to scabies. A cataplasm of the bruised leaves is applied to syphilitic ulcers, to maggot-eaten sores, and as an emollient to snake bites. A powderof the dry leaves is used in bed sores. The juice mixed with oil forms an application for rheumatic arthritis. The expressed juice of the leaves is a safe, certain, and speedy emetic for
children. In smaller doses, the juice of the leaves is expectorant, and is useful in bronchitis andasthma.
In congestive headache a piece of cotton saturated with the expressed juice of the plant leaves and inserted into each nostril is said to bring relief by causing a haemorrhages from the nose.The root, bruised in water, is used as a cathartic. In cases of constipation of children thebruised leaves introduced after the manner of a suppository have the invariable effect of at once relieving he contraction of the sphincter ani. The juice of the fresh leaves, mixed with
lime, is applied in painful rheumatic affections.