Oxalis corniculata - പുളിയാറില

Oxalis corniculata
Oxalidaceae 
Creeping Wood Sorrel, Creeping Oxalis
Sanskrit: चांगेरी Changeri, अम्लः Amla, अम्ली Amli
പുളിയാറില
Hindi: Amrul अम्रुल 
Kannada:Pullampurachi,Chaangeri Manipuri: Yensil 
Tamil: Paliakiri 
Bengali: Amrulshak  
Nepali: चरी अमिलो Charee Amilo 
Mizo: Siakthur 
Santali: Tandi chatam ara

Chargeri is distributed world-wide and considered a weed. The leaves are typically sour in taste hence the name puliyarila in Malayalam and Amla in sanskrit.
Neeraral is sometimes mistakenly taken as chargeri. 
Part Used :
Whole plant, leaves, Swarasa
Medicinal uses:
Deepana, pachana
Useful in Grahani, enteritis, diarrhoea, and poisonous snake bites. The juice of the plant, mixed with butter, is applied to muscular swellings, boils and pimples. 
It has antibacterial activity.
 The leaf juice is applied to insect bites, burns and skin eruptions
The plant is a good source of vitamin C and is used as an antiscorbutic in the treatment of scurvy. 
The leaves are used as an antidote to poisoning by the seeds of Datura spp, arsenic and mercury.

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