Danda Thor
Common on rocky sites, and as hedge plant, it is succulent dendroid shrub with many jointed branches. Branches cylindrical erect bearing short, paired stipular thorns in 5-slightly spiral lines. Leaves alternate deciduous, clustered at the branches and ovate oblong. Flowers yellow, 3-7 together in short peduncled cymes. Fruit a capsule, deeply 3-lobed have 3 seeds in each locule. Flowering and fruiting in February to May.
Part used : Root and Latex
Usage : The milky latex of plant is used as an expectorant. It is used locally as rubefacient, digestive, abortifacient. It is effective in earache, enlargement of spleen and lever, cutanious affections, inflammation,
rheumatism, asthma and dysentery. Latex is externally applied to skin on blisters/wounds, to remove warts and an antidote to snake bite. Root decoction is an abortifacient, leaves eaten as vegetable.
Agrotechniques : No proper Agrotechniques are available. It is vegetatively propagated through stump planting during February – March.