Natural Punarnava Extract (AlkaLoids 1.2%)

Description :This species is globally distributed in the Pantropics. Within India, it is found abundantly occurring as a weed throughout, ascending to an altitude of 2000 metres in the Himalayas. It is also cultivated to some extent in West Bengal.
It can be propagated by seeds and also through tissue culture from stem segments. Being a weed of waste lands, it can grow on variety of soil.

OTHER NAMES : Bhauma, Kathilah, Kathilla

Root : Cork is composed of thin walled, oval to polygonal parenchymatous cells. Vessels have pits and reticulate thickening.Fibres are Aseptate, Thick walled, Spindle-shaped with pointed ends.

Stem : Epidermal layer contains muticellular, uniseriate, glandular trichomes consisting of ellipsoidal or clavate head and a stalk of 8-12 cells; cortex consists of 1-2 layers of Collenchyma and 6-7 layers of Parenchyma.