Red-flame ivy, Hemigraphis colorata Blume, Murikooti – plant

Description

Family: Acanthaceae
Botanical name: Hemigraphis colorata Blume
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Vranaropani
English: Red-flame ivy
Malayalam: Murikooti, Muriyan pacha

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
This plant is also called Murikoodi from the fact that it is a quick healer of fresh cuts and wounds. Muri or murivu in Malayalam means a cut or wound and kooduka means to gather and here it refers to wound healing. Thus murikoodi can be translated into a wound-healer.Sometime produce single white small flowers.The whole plant of Murikooti is used in stopping all external bleeding.