Adhatoda vasica (L.) Nees (family Acanthaceae) is a shrub 1 2.5 m high with opposite ascending branches simple, opposite, 7-19 cm long and 4-7 cm wide. The are white, pink or purple. The plant grows throughout the Indian peninsula up to an altitude of 1300m. The names Adhatoda zeylanica Medic and Justicia adhatoda L. are used synonymously. It is also known under the common name Malabar nut tree and the Sanskrit name Vasaka. The plant has been used in the indigenous system of medicine in India for over 2000 years. It is a well-known drug in Ayurvedic and Unani medicine (Manjunath, 1948). The leaves was used for stomach catarrh with constipation, gout, urinary stone (Madaus, 1938) and warmed leaves used externally for rheumatic pains and dislocation of joint (Rao and Jamir, 1982). Anti-oxidant and radical scavenging activity (Srinivasarao et al., 2006) Anti-inflammatory effect et al., 2011
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