पर्पटकः- Mollugo cerviana
Name - पर्पटः
Botanical name - Mollugo cerviana
Description - Erect, slender, branched herbs. Leaves linear-spathulate, fascicled. Flowers greenish, in cymes. Capsule globose.
Chemical Constituents- Plant contains flavone-c-glycoside orientin, vitexin.
Use - Stomachic, aperient and antiseptic. Flower and tender shoots diaphoretic and febrifuge. Root boiled in oil for application in gout and rheumatism. It promotes flow of lochial discharges and is Used as a cure for gonorrhoea
