Plant Catalogue of Amrit Kunj Organic Permaculture Farm (AKOPF)
Medicinal Plants :
Nepali Name : Khair
English Name : Cutch Tree
Family : Leguminosae
Flowering: April-May
Parts Used: Heart wood and Bark
Uses: Cutch cures itching sore throat, bronchitis, indigestion, ulcers, boils, psoriasis, inflammation, urinary discharges and strengthens teeth.
- Nepali Name : Datiwan, Ulte kurro, Apamarg
English Name : Prickly chaff-flower plant.
Family : Amaranthaceae
Flowering: May- July
Parts Used: Whole plant
Uses: The plant is used as laxative, diuretic, expectorant, carminative, stomachic, anti- inflammatory and haematinic. It also useful for asthma, dyspepsia, colic, skin diseases,cardiac disorder and anaemia.
- Nepali Name : Bel, Shreephal
English Name : Baeltree, Bengal quince
Family : Rutaceae
Flowering: April-May
Parts Used: Roots, leaves and fruits
Uses: The roots are useful in diarrhea and dysentery. The leaves are expectorant, astringent and in diabetes. The ripe fruit is sweet, aromatic and drink is given for chronic constipation and dyspepsia.
- Nepali Name : Banlasun
English Name :
Family : Amaryllidaceae
Flowering: Aug- Sept.
Parts Used: Roots and leaves
Uses: Stimulant and flavoring material to various recipes.
- Nepali Name: Ban lude, Kade lude
English Name: Prickly amaranth
Family: Amaranthaceae
Flowering: June-Aug.
Parts Used: Roots
Uses: Roots are diuretic and also used in colic pain and leucorrhoea.
- Nepali Name: Sarpa ko makai
English Name: Arisaema, Cobra lily
Family: Araceae
Flowering: May-June
Parts Used: seeds, roots and corns
Uses: It is poisonous. Roots are used to kill worms, which infect cattle.
- Nepali Name : Tite Pati
English Name : Mug-wort
Family : Compositae
Flowering: June-July
Parts Used: Roots and shoots
Uses: It cures asthma, itching, anorexia, gastritis, rheumatism, bronchitis, fever, headache, hemorrhage and diarrhea.
- Nepali Name : Kurilo, setawar
English Name : Aspaagus
Family : Liliaceae
Flowering: June-Aug.
Parts Used: Roots and new shoots
Uses: Roots are used as diuretic, aphrodisiac, tonic, appetizer, carminative, antispasmodic, galactogogue and astringent also useful in tuberculosis, cough, bronchitis, diarrhea, dysentery etc. Root paste is used for milk secretion.
- Nepali Name : Neem
English Name : Margosa tree, Neem tree
Family : Meliaceae
Flowering: March-Apri
Parts Used: Flowers,lesves, seeds and Bark
Uses: Leaves are useful in skin diseases, intestinal worms, ulcers, malarial and intermittent fever, liver complaint and diabetes.
- Nepali Name: Koiralo
English Name: Mountain ebony, Variegated bauhinia
Family: Leguminosae
Flowering: April-May
Parts Used: Root and Bark
Uses: Is is useful I diarrhea, dysentery, piles and liver complaints.
- Nepali Name: Pakhanbhed, Silphoro
English Name: Rockfoil
Family: Saxifragaceae
Flowering: March-April
Parts Used: Rotstock
Uses: It is useful in piles, tumors, urinary discharges, heart diseases, diseases of the bladder and lungs, fevers, diarrhea, cough and dysentery.
- Nepali Name: Simal
English Name: Red cotton Tree
Family: Bombacaceae
Flowering: March-April
Parts Used: Roots, gums, leaves, bark, flowers and seeds
Uses: Roots is useful in dysentery. Bark is used in healing wound. The gum is efficacious remedy for diarrhea, dysentery, haemoptysis of pulmonary tuberculosis, influenza and vomiting of blood and menorrhagia.
- Nepali Name: Rajbrikshya, Amaltas
English Name: Indian Laburnum, Golden shower, Purging cassia,
Family: Leguminosae
Flowering: April-May
Parts Used: Fruit and leaves
Uses: Leaves juice is a useful dressing for ringworms and cure to skin. Fruit pulp is well known laxative or purgative.
- Nepali Name: Ghodtapre
English Name: Water pennywort
Family: Umbelliferae
Flowering: June-July
Parts Used: Whole plant
Uses: It is useful remedy for syphilis, leprosy, and skin diseases. The leaf powder with the milk in small dose useful in mental weakness and to enhance memory, it is also used as blood purifier, diuretic and insecticide.
- Nepali Name: Tejpaat, Taj, Tajkaulo
English Name: Indian cassia lignea (Cinnamon)
Family: Lauraceae
Flowering: March-April
Parts Used: Bark and leaves
Uses: Leaves are carminative. Bark is useful in diarrhea, flatulence, and nausea. Bark extract is used in treatment of intestinal disorder.
- Nepali Name: Chilla batulepate, Gujargano
English Name: Ice vine, False pareira, Velvet leaf
Family: Menispermaceae
Flowering: March-May
Parts Used: Whole plant and root
Uses: It is useful in dyspepsia, diarrhea, urinary and bldder diseases, prolapses of dyspepsia, snake bite and scorpion sting. It is also used as blood purifier in skin diseases.
- Nepali Name: Sipligan
English Name: Three leaved caper
Family: Leguminosae
Flowering: April-May
Parts Used: Leaves and bark
Uses: Bark is useful in urinary complaints and kidney and bladder stones. Roots are bark promote appetite and increase biliary secretion.
- Nepali Name: Akashbelli
English Name: Dodder
Family: Convolvulaceae
Flowering: Aug – Oct
Parts Used: Whole Plant
Uses: The plant is astringent, expectorant, diuretic, purgative, anthelmintic. It is mainly useful in Jaundice. Seeds are useful in anodyne.
- Nepali Name: Doobo
English Name: Bermuda or bahama grass
Family: Gramineae
Flowering: June-Aug
Parts Used: Whole plant
Uses: It is useful in dropsy, hyperdipsia, burning sensation, haematuria, haemorrhages, skin diseases, diarrhea and dysentery. It is also useful in indigestion, urino-genital diseases.
- Nepali Name: Bhringaraj, Bhangeri jhar
English Name: Trailing eclipta
Family: Compositae
Flowering: June-Aug
Parts Used: Whole plant
Uses: Fresh plant is used as a tonic and deobstruent in the enlargement of the liver and spleen and various chronic skin diseases and wounds. It is used in strengthening gums and blackening hair. The plant is used to get relief from headache, fever, and catarrhatic problems in rural areas of Nepal.
- Nepali Name: Rudrakshya
English Name: Utrasum bead tree
Family: Elaeocarpaceae
Flowering: March-April
Parts Used: Fruits and seed kernek
Uses: Fruit stone is used as liver tonic and is useful in the diseases of head, epileptic fits and mental disorder.
- Nepali Name: Butijhar, Gomukhi
English Name: Prickly leaved elephant’s foot
Family: Compositae
Flowering: June-Aug
Parts Used: Whole plant
Uses: Plant has sharp, pungent and bitter taste and is astringent to the bowel. Leaves are used in swelling, plants in stomach, diarrhea and dysentery. Roots are used to arrest vomiting. Roots are used to vomiting, and in cough and cold and also in fever.
- Nepali Name: Dudhe jhaar
English Name: Snake weed
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Flowering: Throughout year
Parts Used: Whole plant
Uses: Plant is useful in the treatment of cough and asthma. Plant juice is applied to heal wound.
- Nepali Name: Panisaro, pankha phool
English Name: Ginger lily
Family: Zingiberaceae
Flowering: March- April
Parts Used: Rhizomes
Uses: It is useful in dyspepsia and stomachic, carminative, stimulant, and tonic. Rootstock is given with warm water in cough and asthma.
- Nepali Name: Bazar Bhang
English Name: Henbane or Black henbane
Family: Solanaceae
Flowering: June-Aug
Parts Used: Leaves and seeds
Uses: The dried leaves and flowering wigs collected soon after flowering of the plant constituent the drug, relieving certain painful spasmodic conditions of muscles, hysteria, cough. Seeds are useful in the treatment of gastric and intestinal complaints, diarrhea, coug, hysteria, skin inflammation and boils.
- Nepali Name: Okhar
English Name: Himalayan walnut
Family: Juglandaceae
Flowering: Feb-April
Parts Used: Bark
Uses: Bark is used as an anthelmintic and detergent. Leaf is good remedy for scrofula.
- Nepali Name: Dhupi
English Name: Black jupiner
Family: Cupressaceae
Flowering: May
Parts Used: Fruits and leaves
Uses: Fruits and leaves are used in kidney diseases, cough and cold.
- Nepali Name : Asuro
English Name : Malabar nut tree
Family : Acanthaceae
Flowering: April-May
Parts Used: Leaves
Uses: The drug Vasaka comprises the fresh or dried leaves of the plant. It is mainly used in cough and bronchitis.
- Nepali Name: Bakaino
English Name: Bead tree, Persean lilac
Family: Meliaceae
Flowering: March-May
Parts Used: Bark, root, fruit and seeds
Uses: Bark is cathartic emetic. Flowers and leaves emmenogogue and resolvent. Roots bark is bitter, emetic and anthelmintic. Bark is used externally in leprosy, scrofula and other skin diseases.
- Nepali Name: Lajjabati, lajwanti, Buharijhar
English Name: Sensetive plant
Family: Leguminosae
Flowering: June-Aug
Parts Used: roots and leaves
Uses: The leaves and roots are useful in diseases of the kidneys, piles, asthma, cough, dysentery and fistula. Burnt leaves are used to treat skin diseases. Plant juice is used to get relief from gout.
- Nepali Name: Kauso
English Name: Common cowitch, cowhedge
Family: Leguminosae
Flowering: March-April
Parts Used: Roots, leaves, seeds and hairs
Uses: Leaves are aphrodisiac, anthelmintic, and useful in ulcers, inflammation and general disability. Seeds are aphrodisiac, tonic, anthelmintic, and cure blood diseases.
- Nepali Name: Mitha Neem
English Name: Curry-leaf plant
Family: Rutaceae
Flowering: April- May
Parts Used: Whole palnt
Uses: Plant is tonic and stomachic. Bark and root are used as stimulant, and externally used to cure eruptions. Leaves and roots anthelmintic, analgesic, cure piles, inflammations.
- Nepali Name: Kaphal
English Name: Box Myrtle, Bay berry
Family: Myricaceae
Flowering: March-April
Parts Used: Bark, Fruit
Uses: Bark is astringent, carminative and antiseptic. The decoction of bark is useful in asthma, lung affections, chronic bronchitis, diarrhea and dysentery.
- Nepali Name: Karamkanda, tatelo
English Name: Indian trumpet tree
Family: Bignoniaceae
Flowering: May-Aug
Parts Used: Bark, tender fruits, and seeds
Uses: Bark is astringent to the bowel. It is cooling, tonic and increases appetite, is useful in diarrhea and dysentery. Stem is useful in scorpion stings. Tender fruits are described as carminative and stomachic.
- Nepali Name: Chari amilo
English Name: Indian sorrel
Family: Oxalidaceae
Flowering: March-Aug
Parts Used: Leaves and flowers
Uses: leaves and flowers are useful in fevers, dysentery and scurvy.
- Nepali Name: Amala
English Name: Common cowitch, cowhedge
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Flowering: May-July
Parts Used: Fruits
Uses: It is used in anaemia, jaundice and dyspepsia. The fruits are one of the three constituents of the Triphala. Dried fruit powder is used in common cold and constipation. Leaf juice is given to get relief from constipation.
- Nepali Name: Pipala, Murjhang
English Name: Long pepper
Family: Piperaceae
Flowering: June-Aug
Parts Used: Roots and fruits
Uses: Roots are carminative, improve appetite, useful in bronchitis, abdominal pains, diseases of spleen. These are used to relieve from cold, cough, asthma, hoarseness, and hiccup.
- Nepali Name: Ritha
English Name: Soapnut tree
Family: Sapindaceae
Flowering: May-June
Parts Used: Fruits
Uses: Fruits are emetic and expectorant , used in salivation, chlorosis, and epilepsy.
- Nepali Name: Bhalayo
English Name: Marking Nut tree
Family: Anacardiaceae
Flowering: June-Aug
Parts Used: Fruit
Uses: It is believed to useful in ascetics, rheumatism, asthma, skin diseases, ples and psoriasis.
- Nepali Name: Kalobihi, Kuwain
English Name: Black nightshade
Family: Solanaceae
Flowering: August.
Parts Used: Whole plant and berries
Uses: Leaves are employed as poultice over rheumatic and gouty joints. Decoction of leaves is beneficial to cirrhosis of liver. Berries are tonic, diuretic and useful in heart disease.
- Nepali Name: Jamun
English Name: Black plum, Jambolan, Java plum
Family: Myrtaceae
Flowering: May-July
Parts Used: Whole plant
Uses: Bark is good for sore throat, bronchitis, asthma, dysentery, diarrhea and ulcers. Seeds are good for diabetes. Fruits and bark are used in dysentery and diabetes.
- Nepali Name: Barro
English Name: Belliric myrobolon, Bedda nts
Family: Combretaceae
Flowering: April-May
Parts Used: Fruits
Uses: Fruits are useful in indigestion, piles, leprosy, dropsy, fever and diarrhea. The fruit is one of the three constituents of famous ayurvedic preparation Triphala. Fruits are chewed to cure cough, cold and as an appetizer.
- Nepali Name: Harro
English Name: Chebulic myrobolon, Black myrobolon
Family: Combretaceae
Flowering: April-May
Parts Used: Fruits
Uses: The fruits are carminative, tonic, enrich the blood, useful in diseases of spleen, piles and cold. Fruits are used in combination with emblic myrobolon and belleric myrobolon under the name of Triphala.
- Nepali Name: Gurjo
English Name: Heart leaved moonseed
Family: Menispermaceae
Flowering: April- May
Parts Used: Leaves stem and root
Uses: The root is powerful emetic and used for visceral obstructions. The decoction of leaves is used for the treatment of gout. The plant enriches the blood and commonly used in rheumatism, urinary, diseases and jaundice. The juice of stem is useful in diabetes, vaginal and urethral discharges and enlarged spleen.
- Nepali Name: Timur
English Name: Zanthoxylum armatum DC
Family: Rutaceae
Flowering: March-June
Parts Used: Barks, fruits and seeds
Uses: Fruits and seeds are useful in an aromatic tonic in fever and dyspepsia and cholera. Fruits are also used in dental trouble.