Mamijava

Enicostemma littorale is is pungent and very bitter, anthelmintic and reduces fever. It is acrid, thermogenic, digestive, carminative, laxative, anti-inflammatory, liertonic, urinary astringent, depurative, repulsive and anti-periodic and useful in dyspepsia, colic, flatulence, abdominal ulcers, hernia, constipation, dropsy, swellings, vitiated conditions of Kapha and Vata, hepathopathy, glycosuria, leprosy, skin diseases, prutitus, intermittent, fever and malaise.

The extracts are delivered paraben free, and low bacterial count without the use of any chemical or gamma treatment

Leaves, roots are used in traditional practice for treating several ailments like malaria, skin diseases, leprosy, diabetes . The leaf possesses hypoglycemic, antioxidant, hepatoprotective and hepatomodulatory properties and helps in reducing obesity. Whole plant gave alkaloids-gentianine, erythrocentaurin, enicoflavine and gentiocrucine; flavonoids-apigenin, genkwanin iso-vitaxin, swertisin, saponarin and 5-O-glucoside derivatives of sylwertisin and isoswertisin; glucosides-swertiamarin, a triterpene betulin. Swertisiode exhibited hypotensive activity. It is digestive, carminative, stomachic, laxative, depurative, antiinflammatory, liver tonic, antidiabetic.