Bryophyllum pinnatum

BINOMIAL NAME Bryophyllum pinnatum
COMMON NAME Miracle leaf
FAMILY Crassulaceae.
TAMIL NAME ரணகள்ளி
HABIT Perennial fleshy succulent herbaceous plant
MORPHOLOGY It grows up to 60-120 cm tall. Leaves are simple and compound, notches found at the margin. They have bell shaped flowers. The plantlets drop off and root, forming many new plants in a single location. The first leaves are petiolate, simple. Later leaves are imparipinnate, short-stalked 3-foliolate, very occasionally 5-foliolate, sometimes some or all of them reduced to the terminal leaflet. All the leaves elongated-ovate fleshy, light green streaked with purple, bulbils in notches of leaf margins.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES ul {margin: 0;}
  • Controls diabetes, dissolves kidney stones.
  • Used to treat respiratory tract infection, wounds.
  • It is useful for preventing alcoholic, viral and toxic liver damages.
  • It has anti-diabetic and anti-tumor activities
  • The leaf extract is used to heal insect bites
SOURCE 1) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0102695X18305040
2) https://www.plantslive.in