Kurand Ghas Powder - Bophali - Baphuli - Corchorus Depressus

Kurand Ghas Powder is a mat forming, prostrate, much branch woody perennial. Flowers are borne in mostly 2-flower cymes, flower-cluster-stalk minute. Flowers are yellow, 6-8 mm across, flower-stalk about 1 mm long. Sepals are yellowish-green, linear-oblong, 3-4 mm long, spreading, point. Kurand Ghas Powder Petals are obovate-spoon-shape, as long as sepals, blunt. Stamens are 8-10, filaments about 4 mm long, erect. Stems are diffusely branched from woody rootstock. Young branches sparsely hairy, older ones hairless.

Kurand Ghas Powder Leaves are 3-rib, elliptic to broadly elliptic, 4-18 mm long, 2-9 mm broad, hairless except the scattered hairy costae, plicate in bud, round tooth-saw-tooth, without basal bristly appendages, blunt. Leaf-stalks are 1.5-2.5 cm long, thread-like, stipules linear-curve, about 2 mm long. Capsules are oblong-cylindric, straight or curve, becoming hairless, 7-22 mm long, with about 1.5-2 mm long beak, 4-loculed, locules transversely septate. Dry Kurand Ghas is found in Central and North West India and Pakistan to north and tropical Africa and Cape Verde Islands. Flowering: February-November.

Kurand Ghas Powder, traditionally use in pain, fever, sexual dysfunction and to treat gonorrhea. In the present investigation, various pharmacognostical standards for C. depressus have been establish. Collection of plant material was carry out and its morphological, physico-chemical and phytochemical studies including HPTLC of leaf, root and stem of plant were investigate. Microscopically, leaf of C. depressus show presence of anomocytic stomata, crescent shape vascular bundles, unicellular trichomes.

The roots of the Dry Kurand Ghas Powder plant show cork cambium, secondary phloem, and calcium oxalate crystals and stem exhibit fibers, parenchyma cells, vessels, stomata, palisade cells and trichomes. The study concludes that leaves, roots and stem can be differentiate on the basis of macro and microscopic characters. Physico-chemical values, HPTLC fingerprint profile and oleanolic acid detection as marker component.

These studies provide referential information for correct identification. and standardization of the plant and also be helpful to differentiate C. depressus from the closely related other species of Corchorus.

Kurand Ghas Powder Benefits

Used in cases of chronic cystitis, corchorus is also the herb of choice when dealing with milder ailments that require a mild laxative, a digestive aid or a natural cough suppressant.