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Rhinacanthus nasutus 01 Rhinacanthus nasutus 16 Rhinacanthus nasutus, commonly known as: snake jasmine, (Hindi: कबुतर का फुल kabutar ka phul, पालक जूही; Marathi: गजकर्णी gajkarni; Sanskrit: यूथिकापर्णी yuthikaparni; Tamil: நாகமல்லீ,Nagamalli; Telugu: నాగమల్లె Nagamalle; Tagalog: ''tagak-tagak'')〔D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar , S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V. and Nikhil Desale. 2002-2014. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bangalore.〕〔Image on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2395181283/〕 ==Botanical information== Native to India, this useful plant is a 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rhinacanthus nasutus - Snake Jasmine )〕 ==Uses== R. nasutus has been used to treat numerous diseases such as eczema, herpes, pulmonary tuberculosis, hepatitis, diabetes, hypertension, and different types of skin diseases.〔http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2013/102901/#B17〕 It is useful in treating snake bites.〔medicinal uses (pharmacographica indica )〕 Rhinacanthus nasutus is known for its antioxidant property, Research has shown that it has high potential to treat a number of neurodegenerative diseases - dementia, stroke, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Alzeheimer's disease.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Molecules - Free Full-Text - Rhinacanthus nasutus Protects Cultured Neuronal Cells against Hypoxia Induced Cell Death )〕 Rhinacanthus nasutus serves as a potential agent for controlling Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus. 〔http://www.entomoljournal.com/vol3Issue1/pdf/53.1.pdf〕 Extracts of R.nasutus showed antifungal , antibacterial, antiviral, anticancer,antiinflammatory, antidiabetic and antiproliferative activities.〔http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/np50092a018〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Antimicrobial activity and stability of rhinacanthins-rich Rhinacanthus nasutus extract )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Effects of rhinacanthins from Rhinacanthus nasutus on nitric oxide, prostaglandin E2 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha releases using RAW264.7 macrop... - PubMed - NCBI )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Induction of Apoptosis by Rhinacanthone Isolated from ''Rhinacanthus nasutus'' Roots in Human Cervical Carcinoma Cells )〕〔http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2013/102901/〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Antiproliferative Activity of ''Rhinacanthus nasutus'' (L.) KURZ Extracts and the Active Moiety, Rhinacanthin C )〕〔http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/np960613i〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rhinacanthus nasutus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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