Convolvulus scammonia
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Scammony | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Solanales |
Family: | Convolvulaceae |
Genus: | Convolvulus |
Species: | C. scammonia
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Binomial name | |
Convolvulus scammonia |
Convolvulus scammonia, commonly known as scammony,perennial, bearing flowers like those of Convolvulus arvensis, and having irregularly arrow-shaped leaves and a thick fleshy root.
The dried juice, virgin scammony, obtained by incision of the living root, has been used in
tapeworm, especially the former, and it was therefore used as an anthelmintic.[2]
The principal bioactive component is the
scammonin
(also known as jalapin, molecular formula C34H56O16).
References
- ^ "Convolvulus scammonia L. scammony". United States Department of Agriculture.
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Scammony". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the