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Sanskrit Name   : Chitraka
Latin Name    : Plumbago zeylanica.Linn
Habitat               : Found throughout India and sometime cultivated.
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Chitraka

Sanskrit Name	:	Chitraka
Latin Name	:	Plumbago zeylanica.Linn
Habitat	:	Found throughout India and sometime cultivated.
Morphology	:	A Perennial herb with 0.6-1.5 m long stems,some what woody,spreading,glabrous.
Root	:	Finger like thick ,like shatavari,red from outside but white inside but one can bend them easily. Roots are pungent to taste.
Leaves	:	Thin,3.8-7.5x2.2-3.8 cm ovate,subacute,entire,glabrous,reticulately veined,petiole short,amplexicaul at the base.
Fruits	:	With a pair of awns on each carpel.
Flowers	:	In elongate spikes; rachis glandular,striate. calyx 1-1.3 cm.long,narrowly tubular,densely covered with stalked glands. corolla white,slender; tube 2-2.5 cm long.
Fruit	:	Capsule,oblong,pointed;pericarp thin below,thick and hardened above. flowering season is winter followed by fruiting after a month.
Part Used	:	Root bark (use fresh).

Improper use of chitrak causes toxicity.Higher dose of it creates irritant and intoxicant effects.
It causes burning of tongue;throat,stomach and all over the body,nausea,vomiting,diarrhoea,dysuria,burning maturation.

Indicative Price

Chitrak's Raw Herb - Rs.1,105

Chitrak's Powder - Rs.1,495

Chitrak's Oil - Rs.2,210

Chitrak's Extract - Rs.3,250

Reference
Price Information accessed from http://www.ayurvedacart.com/ on 10-04-18

Product details accessed from Ayurved Dravyanidhi

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