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Abutilon indicum (Linn.) Sweet
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English Name |
India Abutilon, Indian Abutilon, Kanska |
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Latin name |
Abutilon indicum (Linn.) Sweet |
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Family & Genus |
Malvaceae, Abutilon |
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Description |
Annual perennial herbs or perennially erect shrubby herbs, multi-branched, 1-2.5m tall. Branchlets, petioles and pedicels have grey hair and mixed filamentous long hairs. Leaf arrangement alternate, leaves ovoid to nearly round, 2.5-9cm long, apex acute or acuminate, base cordate, with blunt irregular blunt serrate, grey or grey star-shaped pubescent on both sides; petioles 2-5cm, stipules subulate, 1-2mm long, densely grey short hairs and filamentous long hairs, usually bent outward, 3-9cm long, 2.5-7cm wide, apex mucronulate or indirect, base cordate, stellate hair on both sides. Flowers solitary at axil. Pedicels 4-6cm long, with joints nearly at the top; calyx discoidal, green, stem 0.6-1cm, dense grey hairs, lobes 5, wide ovate, apex acute; corolla yellow, petals 5, 6-8mm long; stamen column has stellate bristles; carpel 15-20, arranged round, number of style branches and carpel same, stigma capitulum. Mericarp nearly spherical, apex truncate, like a millstone, ca. 1.5cm in diameter, black; mericarps 15-20, apex truncate, with short awn, stellate long bristles. Seeds reniform, sparsely stellate soft hairs. Flowering: July to October. Fruiting: October to December. |
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Distribution |
Growing in plains, seasides, sand ground, open fields, slopes, river valleys or roadsides. Distributed in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan. The medicinal materials are mainly produced in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. |
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Part Used |
Medical part: whole plant, seeds and roots. Chinese name: whole plant: Mopancao. Seeds: Mopancaozi. Roots: Mopangen. |
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Harvest & Processing |
Whole plant: harvested in summer and autumn, cut into pieces and sun-dried. Seeds: harvested in Winter when fruits are mature, sun-dried, knocked the seeds and sun-dried. Roots: excavated in April, well washed, sliced and sun-dried. |
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Chemistry |
Whole plant contains alantolactone, isoalantolactone, gallic acid. Aboveground parts contain leucine, histidine, threonine, vanillic acid, coumaric acid, hydroxybenzoic acid, caffeic acid, fumaric acid, fructose, galactose, mucilage and C22-C44 alkane. Also containβ-pinene, caryophellene, cineole, geraniol, elemene, farnesol, and volatiles like borneol, β-pinene, caryophellene, cineole, geraniol, elemene, farnesol, and volatiles like borneol. Seeds contain tall oil fatty acid and sitosterol, raffinose. Roots contain β-sitosterol, β-amyrin), alkaloid and fat. |
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Properties & Actions |
Whole plant: taste sweet, tasteless, cool in nature. Seeds: taste pungent, sweet, and cold in nature. Root: taste sweet, tasteless, and neutral in nature.Whole plant: dispersing wind and heat, reducing phlegm and arresting cough, detumescence and detoxifying. Seeds: orifice opening, disinhibiting dieresis and clearing heat-toxin. Roots: clearing heat and dampness, orifice opening and quickening blood. |
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Indications & Usage |
Whole herb: used for cold, pyrexia, cough, diarrhea, otitis media, deafness, pharyngitis, urinary tract infection, ulcerative carbuncle and abscess, injury from falls.Whole plant: oral administration: decocting, 30-60g; or stewed with meat. External application: appropriate amount, or decocted for fumigating and washing. Seeds: oral administration: powdered, 1-3g. Roots: oral administration: decocting, 9-15g. External application: appropriate amount, applied in smashed form or boiled in water, for fumigating and washing. |
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Examples |
Whole herb:
1. Otodynia, deafness: India abutilon 60g. Decoct with an appropriate amount of lean meat.
2. Otitis media: India abutilon 30-60g, caiergen 15g, dried cuttlefish 1. Eat after cooked in water.
Seeds:
1. Dysentery with red and white feces: India abutilon seeds, parch and grind into powder. 3g each time, 3 times a day, swallow with honey soup before meals.
2. Anthracia: Indian abutilon seeds 3g. Grind into powder, and swallow with boiled water.
Roots:
1. Haemorrhoids. India abutilon root 150g. Decoct heavily in water, and take approximately 1 tea cup, the rest decoction is used to fumigate anus when it is hot, and wash anus when it is warm. Fumigate 5 to 6 times each day.
2. urinary tract infection: India abutilon root 10-15g. Decoct in water for oral dose. |
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