BHANGRA

English            :           False daisy/Eclipta

Urdu                :           Bhangra/Babri

Telugu             :           Galagara-chettu/Gunta-galijaeru

Description : This is a common and small herb, found abundantly throghout india in wet places. It is a coarsely hairy,annual,erect or prostate. Leaves are hairy and variable in shape.Flower heads are white small,axillary or terminal. It is of three kinds i.e yellow ,white and black. Black variety is moe effective than others but is not commonly found.

Action and uses: It is an alternative, deobstruent,carmintive, blood-purifier,pectoral and anti-asthmatic,resovlent and eye-sight tonic. It is a good hair-tonic especially black variety and backens the hair.

It is internally used in the form of fresh juice of the leaves in hepato- splenomegaly,jaundice and various chronic skin diseases e.g leprosy,vitiligo ,skin eruptions ,itching and scabies etc. It is also used in flatulent abdomen and colic. It is given to improve eye-sight. It is useful in coughs and bronchial asthma. It is also an emetic

It is externally used for cleaning and healing sores and applied to chronic glandular swellings and skin diseases. Fresh juice of the leaves is dropped in eyes in case of conjuctiviits and also rubbed into the shaven scalp to promote growth of hair. It is included in the formulations of hair oils and tonics. It is also useful in alopecia. Root is also used in liver diseases and in scalding of urine.