Fabaceae / Papilionaceae

Boraginaceae
Heliotropium strigosum Willd.
English name: Heliotropio.
Local name: Chitiphul, Safed bhangra, Kharsun, Gorakh Paan.
Description:
A delicate annual prostrate or procumbent branched herb with stiff hairs, usually
branched from the base. Leaves linear small without petiole, margins entire.
Flowers white in cymes, minute, deeply five lobed, star shaped.
Flowering Period:
April to September.
Habitat:
The plant grows on sandy places.
Uses:
The plant is reported to possess laxative and diuretic
properties. It is used sometimes for pains in the limbs.
The juice of the plant is applied to sore eyes. It is also
used for boils, wounds and ulcers. It is used in snake-bite.
Also used as a pain-killer.
Distribution:
Pakistan, India, Northern and WesternAfrica.
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