Affiliation:
1. Sundarrao More Arts, Commerce, and Science (Sr) College, Poladpur, Raigad, Maharashtra, India
Abstract
Sida acuta (Linn) is a common wireweed undershrub flowering plant from the Malvaceae family present in Poladpur taluka of Raigad District. All parts of plant such as leaves, flower, stem, roots and are used as use traditionally in the form of extracts or powder by tribal people of this area for treating various ailments such as cold and cough, stomach, dysentery, haemorrhoids, malaria, ulcers, renal inflammations, fever and asthma kidney, dandruff, rheumatism, liver problems, Attempts have been made to study the preliminary analysis of plant and their ethnomedicinal uses of selected plant.
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