- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Asclepiadaceae
- English Names
- Mudar plant
- Gigantic Swallowwort
- Natural Habitat
- India
- Ceylon
- Indonesia
- Southern China
- Africa
- Persia
- Israel
- Arabia
- Egypt
- Abyssinia
- naturalized in the West Indies
- Part(s) Used
- Cortex radicis Calotropidis
- Flores Calotropis
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- Constituent(s)
- madar-alban
- calatropin
- madar-fluavil
- mudarine
- resin
- bitter principle
- Action
- rootbark: tonic
- sudorific
- alterative
- antispasmodic
- expectorant; in large doses emetic
- flower: digestive
- stomachic
- tonic
- - The milky juice of the shrub is poisonous
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