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Paeonia emodi Wall. ex Royle
Family name: Paeoniaceae
Local Name / English Name: Mamaikh / HImalayan peony
Flowering Period: April - May
Status: Common
Part Used: Rhizomes, roots, and seeds
Habit/Habitat: A small perennial gergarious herb, found in humus soil.
Distribution: Pakistan: Dir, Chitral, Hazara, Murree, Kaghan, and Naran. World: India, eastern Afghanistan.
Description: A small perennial herb. Leaves biternate or ternate, glabrous; lamina pale on undersurface, decurrent; median segment deeply 3-incised, the lateral segments elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate. Flowers solitary, axillary; three to five seeds, large, globose-ovoid, minuely rugose, brown-black, bright scarlet when unripe (Fig. 3.64).
Medicinal Uses:
Collection: Tubers are collected by young childrens and women 20-40 years old, washed in water 2-3 times, and dried for 15-20 days in the shade.
Recipes: 100g of dried tubers is ground into a fine powder and cooked in desighee. This paste is used to cure rheumatism ackaches and as a tonic. For children: 1 tsp (5 mL) and 1 cup (250 mL) of paste (at one time) is given in the morning for 10-20 days. For adults, 1 cup (250 mL) of paste (at one time) is given once daily for 10-.20 days.
Diseases Cured: Rheumatism and backache; also used as a tonic.
Phytochemicals: Oxalic acid, tannins, paeoninol and paeonin C, oligostilbene and monoterpene galctoside, 4-hydoxybenzoic acid 3, gallic acid 4, and methyl gallate...