Heliotropium indicum, Thelkada, Thekkida, Indian heliotrope, തേല്‍ക്കട, തെക്കിട

Family: Boraginaceae
Vernacular names: Thelkada, Thekkida, തേല്‍ക്കട, തെക്കിട (Malayalam), Indian heliotrope (English), Siriyari (Hindi), Thelkodukku (Tamil)
Distribution: Pantropical
Description: Erect pubescent herbs. Leaves, sub-deltoid or broadly ovate, base truncate. Spikes terminal or leaf-opposed, curved. Flowers sessile, pale violet or pink. Nutlets connate in pairs, separating later, ribbed.
Habit: Herb
Habitat: Along lakeshores and paddy fields during summer
Flowering & Fruiting: September-March

Parts used: Leaves
Properties & Uses: Anti-inflammatory, wound healing, antiseptic and febrifuge. The leaf juice is applied to reduce pain of snake bite, scorpion and insect stings. Cooked leaves are used in stomach ache. Leaf juice is used in wound dressing, joint pain, skin and eye diseases, ulcers, boils, scabies, cuts and sores.
Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk,
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