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நீர்ப்பிரம்மி (ஊதாப்பூ)2

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Common names: Baby's tears; Water Hyssop; Indian pennywort . Botanical name: Bacopa monnieri Tamil name : NIRPPIRAMMI ‘water brahmmi’ Sanskrit names: Brahmi; Indravalli; jalasaya . Kannada name : Jalabrahmi . Telugu: Sambrani chettu; Neeri sambraani mokka . Flowering: May-October. This is a screeper bearing blue hued flowers ;Another variety of the same creeper bears white flowers ;Brahmi has antioxidant properties. It has been used to cure epilepsy, to increase memory power;It is useful to treat ulcer ; Functions as laxative;For treating spleen also it is used ; For leprosy it is used as medicine ; For leucoderma also it is handled as medicine ;As aphrodisiac it is recommended by traditional phusicians ; It is believed to cure anaemia; Useful medicinal plant for diarrhea ; As researches ,it is a storehouse of alkaloids like Herpestine, Brahmine etc., In shot - Side view of a flower is shown. Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
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