Andrographis paniculatais a herbaceous plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to China,India and Sri Lanka. It is widely cultivated in southern Asia, where it is used to treat infections and some diseases, often being used before antibiotics were created. Mostly the leaves and roots were used for medicinal purposes.

Andrographis paniculata is an erect annual herb extremely bitter in taste in each and every part of the plant body. It grows erect to a height of 30-110 cm in moist shady places with glabrous leaves and white flowers having rose-purple spots on the petals. Flowers are small, solitary in panicles. Fruit is approximately 2 cm long. Seeds are numerous, yellow-brown in colour. In many languages, it is named "king of bitters", or "bitter of the earth" The genus Andrographis consists of 28 species of small annual shrubs essentially distributed in tropical Asia. Only a few species are medicinal, of which A. paniculata is the most popular.It has many common names for different language.

 

Benefits
•Immunostimulant Effects
•Anti-cancer
•Anti-bacterial
•Treat infections
• Anti-typhoid against Salmonella typhae
• Antifungalagainst Helminthosporium sativum
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• Treat Malaria
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