Pitt Papada / Shahtara

Description :

Indian Fumitory is a delicate much-branched annual herb with clusters of tiny pale-pinkish to whitish flowers, each 4-8 mm long. Sepals are samll. Upper petals have short, somewhat down-curved sac-like spur. Flower-stalks are rear, as long or slightly shorter than the laceshaped bracts. 

                               

Details:

Botanical Name : Fumaria officinalis Linn

English Name : Common Fumitory, Earth-smoke

Hindi Name : Pitpapra, Papara, Shahtara

Arabic Name : Shahtaraj, Shaatiraj

Bengali Name : Vanshulfa, Shotara, Pitpapra

Chinese Name : Tzu hua ti ting

French Name : Fumée de terre

German Name : Ackerraute, Echter Erdrauch

Gujarati Name : Pittapapada, Pitpapado

Kannada Name : Kallu Sabasige, Parpatu, Chaturasigide

Kashmiri Name : Shahtar

Marathi Name : Pittapapada, Shatra, Parpat

Malayalam Name: Parpatakam

Persian Name : Shahtara, Shahtarak

Punjabi Name : Shahtara, Pittapapara

Sanskrit Name : Yavana Parpata

Urdu Name : Shahtara

Nepali Name: Dhukure

Telugu Name: Chatarashi

Part Used : Leave,Root,Bark

Medicinal Uses :

• Indian Fumitory is used in aches and diarrhoea,pains, influenza ,fever and liver complaints.
• The dried plant is also used as an anthelmintic,diaphoretic and diuretic and, in combination with black pepper, for jaundice.
• A cold infusion of the plant is used to treat wasting diseases of children and to help cooling during fever and in the treatment of dyspepsia and constipation .
• Indian Fumitory is used as a blood purifier for skin diseases and applied externally in leucoderma and fomentation for swollen joints.
• It is particularly valuable in the treatment of all visceral obstructions of the liver.

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