Platostoma menthoides
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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| genus = Platostoma
| species = menthoides
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- Elsholtzia ocimoides {{Au|Pers.}}
- Geniosporum gracile {{Au|Benth.}}
- Geniosporum menthoides {{Au|(L.) Druce}}
- Geniosporum prostratum {{Au|(L.) Benth.}}
- Lumnitzera prostrata {{Au|(L.) Spreng.}}
- Mentha ocymoides {{Au|Lam.}}
- Ocimum macrostachyum {{Au|Poir.}}
- Ocimum menthoides {{Au|L.}}
- Ocimum prostratum {{Au|L.}}
- Thymus indicus {{Au|Burm.f.}}
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Platostoma menthoides is a species of plant belonging to the mint family Lamiaceae and is found widely in Tamil Nadu, India. Traditionally this plant used in common cold and febrifuge.Singhal AK, Bhati VS, Singhal Vishnu Kumar. "Pharmacognostic Study of Aerial Parts of Plant Geniosporum prostratum (L) Benth.". Journal of Scientific Speculations and Research Vol. 1, No. 1, pg 19 – 24, 2010
Acute oral toxicity study
In Acute Oral Toxicity Study, no mortality was found at the end of study and sign of toxicity like change in skin and fur, eyes and mucous membrane, and also respiratory, circulatory, autonomic, and central nervous system and somatomotor activity, behavior pattern, sign of tremors, convulsions, salvation, lethargy, sleep, coma were also not found.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}
Antipyretic activity
Ethanolic extract of bark of Platostoma menthoides on yeast-induced pyrexia shows significant effect.{{cite journal |last1=Singhal |first1=VishnuKumar |last2=Gupta |first2=Hemendra |last3=Singhal |first3=AnilKumar |last4=Bhati |first4=VarunSingh |title=Evaluation of antipyretic activity of ethanolic extract of plant Geniosporum prostratum (L.) Benth. Bark |journal=Chronicles of Young Scientists |date=2011 |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=168 |doi=10.4103/2229-5186.90895 |doi-access=free }}
References
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{{cite web | title = Platostoma menthoides | url = http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=157477 | work = World Checklist of Selected Plant Families | publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | access-date = 19 February 2015 }}
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Category:Flora of India (region)
Category:Plants described in 1830
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