Calotropis procera Akada Phool | Dava Bazaar in India

Plant Profile

Botany

Binomial nomenclature

Calotropis procera

Scientific Name and Description

Calotropis procera (Ait.) R.Br. Ait.

Herb Family

Apocynaceae

Plant type

Herb

Plant Synonyms

Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T.Aiton
Calotropis procera R.BR.
Asclepias procera Aiton
Calotropis procera (Ait.) R. Br. Madar /Akavan
Calotropis procera (Aiton) Dryand

Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular

Hindi	Safed ark, Madar, aak, aakdo, aakro, ag, ak, akada, akaro, akh, akha, akra, dudla, madar, mudar, safed-ak, safedak
Tamil	Erukku, vellai erukkan, vellai erukku, vellerku, vellerukku
Telugu	Yerragada, erra jilledu, jilledu, mandaaramu, mandaramu, nallajilledu
Marathi	Rui, Ark, mandara, rui
English	apple of sodom, french cotton, sodom apple
Kannada	bili aekka, bili aekkada gida, bili yekkada gida, kempu ekka
Malayalam	erikku, erukku
Sanskrit	adityapushpika, alarka, alarkah, arka, arkah, arkaparna, arkavrikshaha, asphota, bhanu, bimbora, dirghpushpa, ganarupaka, kashthila, ksiraparna, mandara, pi, pratapa, rajarka, raktarka, ravi, rupika, sadapushpa, sadapushpi, shambhu, sharkarapushpa, shitakarka, shuklaphala, shveta, shvetarka, tapana, tulaphala, vasuka, vedha, vikirana, vrittamallika
Tibetan	a rga i rtsa ba, a rgai rtsa ba

Plants Medicinal Value

Medicinal Systems

Ayurved

Unani

Siddha

Tibetan

Folk

Sowa Rigpa

Pharmacological profile

Phytochemicals

Flavonoids

Herb usable parts

Roots

Stem

Bark

Leaves

Flowers

Latex

Ethanomedical Uses

Ethnopharmacology use

All parts of plants are used as anti-periodic, antidote and expectorant.
The root paste is applied on snake and scorpion bite.
Root bark diaphoretic used in dysentery, expectorant and emetic.
The inner bark of stem is tied over cuts for early healing.
Powdered flowers or gynostegium are used in cold, cough and asthma.
Gynostegium is eaten for the cure of cancer.
The latex is applied externally over swollen portion to reduce pain in piles and boils.
The latex is also applied on knee with the help of camel's pettet to cure the knee pain.
The extract of leaves is relieves earache.
Fresh or warm leaf applied over painful rheumatic joints, swellings, sores and wounds.

Source: Medicinal Plants in the Indian Arid Zone, March 2005, Director Central Arid Zone Research Institute Jodhpur 342 003

Calotropis procera (Ait.) R. Br. Madar /Akavan AsclepiadaceaeShrub Latex and Leaf cardenolides, flavonoids, sterols, oxypregnanes triterpenoids, glycosides

Calotropis procera L. Aak Asclepiadaceae Detergent, snake bites

Calotropis procera (Aiton) Dryand

Habit- Herb

Parts used - Latex, flower, leaves, root, bark, vegetative buds

Application - Dysentery; Syphilitic ulceration; Liver enlargement; Rheumatic joints; ulcers; Oligomenorrhoea; intermittent fever; epistaxis; Hypertension; Scorpion sting; Stomach ache; Gastric trouble.; Tumour in stomach; Corn; piles; Epilepsy; Leprosy; dropsy; Painful gums; intestinal worms; Dental caries; Cholera; jaundice; gastritis; snake bite; epilepsy; abortion; tuberculosis;

Treatment - General

References - Chopda and Mahajan 2009, Jain et al. 2009, Rao et al. 2006, Sharma et al. 2013, Upadhya et al. 2012