Plant Synonyms
Abelmoschus manihot var. megaspermus Hemadri
Abelmoschus manihot var. timorensis (DC.) Hochr.
Abelmoschus pentaphyllus (Roxb.) Voigt
Abelmoschus platidactylus (Bakh.) Nakai
Abelmoschus pseudomanihot (DC.) Endl.
Abelmoschus venustus Walp.
Hibiscus bartlingianus Steud.
Hibiscus japonicus Miq.
Hibiscus manihot L.
Hibiscus papyrifer Salisb.
Hibiscus pentaphyllus Roxb.
Hibiscus pseudomanihot DC.
Hibiscus timorensis DC.
Hibiscus zenkeri Gürke
Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular
| English | aibika |
| Hindi | jangli bhindi |
| Marathi | jangali bhendi |
| Common name | aibika |
Modern pharmacological findings have shown that the extracts and active constituents of A. manihot possess various biological properties, including anti-DN (Tu et al., 2013), anticonvulsant (Guo et al., 2011), antioxidant (Zhang et al., 2013), antiadipogenic, anti-inflammatory (Jain and Bari, 2010), analgesic (Fan et al., 2003), antidepressant (Guo et al., 2011), antiviral (Wu et al., 2007), antitumor (Zheng et al., 2016), antiplatelet (Guo et al., 2005), anti-Crohn’s disease (Yang B. L. et al., 2018), anti-poststroke depression (Liu et al., 2009), proangiogenic (Zhu et al., 2018), cardioprotective (Lv et al., 2017), neuroprotective (Cheng et al., 2006), immunomodulatory (Pan et al., 2018), and hepatoprotective (Ai et al., 2013) properties, and are effective against cerebral infarction, bone loss (Guo and Chen, 2002; Puel et al., 2005), etc. Many of these activities are consistent with those of A. manihot in traditional medicine and support traditional usage.
Source: Front. Pharmacol., 26 August 2020 Sec. Ethnopharmacology Volume 11 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2020.01068
Abelmoschus manihot (L.) Medik. Perennial shrub Root Skin burns General Mali and Bhadane 2011
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Citations
Abelmoschus manihot. (2024, March 19). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelmoschus_manihot