Acalypha Indica explained by Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS, Isl.Juris.
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Cupameni. Indian acalypha. Euphorbiaceae.
Use tincture of fresh plant for mother tincture.
Acalypha Indica – cat’s-tail – chenille plant. Philippine Medusa. Red-hot cattail. Bristly copperleaf, Asian Mercury, Indian Mercury, Copperleaf, Indian Nettle, Three-seeded Mercury; is an herbaceous annual that has catkin-like (CatMit – Pakistan).
Acalyphaindica, a plant species found throughout tropical Africa and South Africa, Asia – Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, China, Iran, Iraq, Yemen etc.
Characteristics : Antifungal activity of whole plant and leaf extract of Acalypha indica against all fungal species showed the inhibitory growth less than 20%. The findings exhibit that aqueous extracts have broad spectrum activity
The chief employment of this Euphorbia has been in violent dry cough followed by bloody expectoration. Expectoration of pure blood in the morning, and dark clotted blood in the evening. Cough most violent at night, whopping dry cough, violent night cough, violent dry cough followed by bloody expectoration, Tuberculosis of lungs, Tuberculosis with a dry hacking cough. Dullness of chest on percussion; constant severe pain in chest. Progressive emaciation phthisis, Bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma.
Burning, sense of weight at stomach, flatulence, and sputtering diarrhoea, intestinal worms, stomach ache. Diarrhoea, diarrhea with loss of appetite and fever, rectal haemorrhage which is different from bacillary dysentery or blood discharge of a person suffering from haemorrhoids, burning sensation in abdomen (Crohn’s disease ?), sensation of weight at stomach, flatulence, and sputtering diarrhoea. Jaundice.
Haemoptysis anthelmintic, anti inflammation, anti bacterial, eye infections, anti cancer, anti diabetes, anti hyperlipidemic, anti obesity, anti venom, acts as an emetic, hepatoprotective, hypoxia, wound healing, skin parasites/ scabies and other skin problems, maggot-infested wounds, root infusion or decoction is best for asthma, pneumonia. clean the liver and kidneys. Rejuvenate/anti aging effect.
Leaves of Acalypha grandis have also been reported to possess contraceptive activity.
Four successive solvent extracts such as chloroform, ethanol, petroleum ether and aqueous of the whole plant of Acalypha indica are tested for post-coital antifertility activity in female albino rats. Of these, petroleum ether and ethanol extracts at (600 mg/kg body weight) showed estrogenic activity.
It acts as an anthelmintic for asthma, laxative even if apply externally on skin it acts as laxative, rheumatoid arthritis, syphilitic ulcer and wound healing.
ear aches and oral diseases, gum and teeth disease, mouth ulcers, bronchitis, expectorant
Gives good results in epilepsy.
Low blood sugar – after the administration of different plant extracts, followed by decreases in levels of cholesterol, urea and triglycerides levels after six hours.
The streptozotocin drug was used to cause a rapid destruction of pancreatic β cells which led to impaired glucose-stimulated insulin release and resistance. These are the molecular marker features for type II diabetes.
The plant extract to inhibit the destruction of pancreatic β cells will determine whether the medicine is useful or not.
In this case, the whole plant of Acalypha indica was used as an herb for anti-diabetic activity.
Inthe studies, the whole plant has proven to be high effective. This is possibly due to the root
containing small amounts of cyanogenic secondary metabolites compared to the aerial part.
The leaves can be mixed together with oil and other herbs such as black cuminum and Cardiospermum halicacabum for external application to treat skin disease, stimulate libido.
Three types of cancer cell lines have been tested with Acalypha indica leaf extracts including KB-Oral cavity cancer, MCF7-breast cancer and PC3 human prostate cell cancer.
The anti-cancer activity was determined through MTT assay method. The ethanolic extract of Acalypha
indica inhibited MCF7-breast cancer with an inhibition concentration (IC50) value of 35 µg/ml.
Two standards have been used in the assay for comparison which was doxorubicin and ellipticine. The IC50 value for doxorubicin and ellipticine were 8.8 µg/ml and 0.5 µg/ml, respectively.
The MCF7- breast cancer and the KB-Oral cavity cancer were considered non reactive with the methanolic extract since the inhibition concentration exceeded 50 µg/ml.
In addition, a recent study has revealed that the quebrachitol could participate in several important mechanisms as potential anti cancer drugs either via arrest or reverse pathways.
There are two types of methods done to study the anti-obesity of Acalypha indica plant extract.
Conducted a study using different concentrations of ethanolic extract through a weight assessment for 29 days the study by using a high-fat content diet together with ethanolic extract.
The mean body weight of the objects on the fifteenth day was measured to compare between the standard (Simvastatin) and the 300 mg ethanolic extract.
Both groups increased by 34.14% and 34.61% after being fed the atherogenic induced diet, while the group who were only fed the atherogenic induced diet had a high value of mean body weight percentage (39.56%).
The ethanolic extract exhibited similar results to the standard drug used in the experiment. The flavanols inside Acalypha indica like standard drug (quercetin) also played a key role as a potential anti-obesity drug.
The ethanol leaf extract of Acalypha indica was tested for neutralization activity of Viper russelli (Russell’s viper) venom.
The results indicated that the ethanol leaf extract in the dose levels of 500 and 750 mg/kg inhibited the Viper russelli venom induced lethality, haemorrhage, necrotizing and mast cell degranulation, cardiotoxic, neurotoxic effects.
The extract also inhibited the venom induced lipid peroxidation in RBC, decreased GSH and catalase levels of object’s kidney tissue.
Throughout the area where the plant grows, it is widely known for its effect on domestic cats, which react very strongly and favorably to the root of the plant. In this regard it is very similar to catnip or CatMit, but its effect is much more pronounced.
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