Plant Profile
Herb descriptions
Botany
Binomial nomenclature
Luffa echinata
Scientific Name and Description
Luffa echinata ROXB.
Herb Family
Plant type
Climber
Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular
| Hindi | bidali, bindaal, dutar toru, duttar-toru, ghagara-bela, ghagarabela, ghagerbel, ghusarana, jangli-tori, kakora, khaksi, kukurlata, sonaiya, vandala, जंगली तुरई जंगली तुरई |
| Kannada | daevadaali, daevadangaar, daevadangari, devadangar |
| Marathi | daevadaagaree, daevadangaree, devadali, devadangari, kukadvel, kukdavel, काटेदार शिराळे काटेदार शिराळे |
| Sanskrit | akhuvishaka, bandala, chaturangaka, dali, deodalika, deotada, devadali, devatadaka, devatadakah, devedali, garagari, ghora, ghosha, gudajarih, hini, jihnutaka, jimuta, jimutaka, jimutakah, kadamba, kantaphala, karkati, kataphala, kharasparsha, koshaphala, kukkuti, lomasapatrika, lomashapatrika, pita, saha, saramushika, tarkari, turangika, veni, vishaghni, vishaha, vratakosha, vrittakosha |
| Tamil | kocaratacitta, kukaitali2, navalokakkalimpupokki, neyppirkku, nuraippirkku, panibira, peyppirkku, tevatali, tevatalicakkoti, tevatalicam, viraittailamcutankatti, vitiputpacam, முள்ளங்காய் முள்ளங்காய் |
| Telugu | paanibira, panibira |
| Tibetan | dji mu ta ka |
| Common names | bristly loofah, vegetable sponge: |
Plants Medicinal Value
Medicinal Systems
Ayurved
Siddha
Homoeopathy
Folk
Sowa Rigpa
Herb usable parts
Fruits
Seeds
Ethnopharmacology use
Luffa echinata Roxb
Habit - Climber
Parts used - Fruit
Application - Liver diseases
Treatment - General
References - Jain 2004
References
Literature
Literature
Jain 2004
Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol I Author - H.J.chowdhery & B.M.Wadhwa
Flora of Rajasthan Vol. 1 Author - B.V.Shetty & V.Singh
Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2 Author - N.P.Singh, P.Lakshminarasimhan, S.Karthikeyan & P.V. Prasanna
Flora of Gujarat State Vol 1 Author - G.L.Shah
Flora of Madhya Pradesh Vol I Author - D.M.Verma, N.P.Balakrishnan, R.D.Dixit
Flora of the Indian Desert Author - Bhandari M.M
Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)
The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Department of AYUSH
Published 11 February 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.18.4.1-112