Plant Details

Accepted name:: Euphorbia prostrata Aiton [Euphorbiaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bacurau	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
bara	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
baradodk	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
blue weed	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chhotidudhi	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
dodhak	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
doodhi khurd	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
duddhi	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
dudhai	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
dudhdee	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
dudhi	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
dudhi kalan	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
dudiya	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
dugdhikā (whole plant)	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
emile	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
euphorbiae prostratae herba	Pharmaceutical	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 1st edn. (DKRI, 2008) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn. (DKRI, 2017)
gorakṣadugdhī	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
ground fig	Other	Market Med. Pl. of Monterrey, México (Nicholson & Arzeni, 1993)
ground spurge	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
hairy creeping milkweed	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
hajardana	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
hazaar dani	Other	Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
hazardana	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
herba patikan cina	Other	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn. (DKRI, 2017)
herba patlkan cina	Other	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 1st edn. (DKRI, 2008)
hierba de la golondrina	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Market Med. Pl. of Monterrey, México (Nicholson & Arzeni, 1993) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
hingestreckte wolfsmilch	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kanike ghans	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
kempu nene hakki	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kerai	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kharui	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kṣīrinī	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
laghudugdhikā	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
lahaan naaytee	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
lahaandudhi	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
naagalaa dudhelee	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
naayeti	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
nilappal	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
nāgārjunī	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
patikan cina	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
peddivari manubaala	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
petit trèfle	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
petite teigne noire	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
petty spurge	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
prostate sandmat	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
prostrate sandmat	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
prostrate spurge	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
quebra-pedra	Other	Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014)
quebra-pedra-miúda	Other	Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014)
quebra-pedra-rasteira	Other	Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014)
quebra-pedra-roxa	Other	Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014)
raati dudhelee	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
red euphorbia	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rosette	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
rougette	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
sanguinho	Other	Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
sheer-e-gayah	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
shwet keruee	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
sittirappaladi	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
sosfand	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
svāduparṇī	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
trailing red spurge	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
yerba lechera	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
铺地草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Whole plant		Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
whole plant		Market Med. Pl. of Monterrey, México (Nicholson & Arzeni, 1993)
all parts of the plant		Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn. (DKRI, 2017)
whole plant	whole plant	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
whole plant	whole plant	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
latex		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 16 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small Fl. S.E. U.S.: 713 (1903).
Anisophyllum prostratum (Aiton) Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ.: 163 (1812).
Aplarina prostrata (Aiton) Raf. New Fl. 4: 99 (1838).
Chamaesyce boliviana (Rusby) Croizat J. Arnold Arbor. 27: 291 (1946).
Chamaesyce malaca Small Fl. S.E. U.S.: 713 (1903).
Chamaesyce villosior (Greenm.) Millsp. Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 2: 412 (1916).
Euphorbia boliviana Rusby Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 4: 442 (1907).
Euphorbia callitrichoides Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 2: 52 (1817).
Euphorbia malaca (Small) Little Publ. Univ. Oklahoma Biol. Surv. 2(2): 70 (1930).
Euphorbia perforata Guss. Fl. Sicul. Prodr. 1: 540 (1827).
Euphorbia prostrata var. caudirhiza Fosberg Micronesica 25: 189 (1992).
Euphorbia prostrata var. vestita Engelm. ex Boiss. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(2): 47 (1862).
Euphorbia ramosa var. villosior Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts, n.s., 32: 297 (1897).
Euphorbia tenella Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 2: 53 (1817).
Euphorbia trichogona Bertol. Misc. Bot. 3: 20 (1844).
Tithymalus prostratus (Aiton) Samp. Anais Fac. Sci. Porto 17: 45 (1931).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Chamaesyce prostrata	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Chamaesyce prostrata Small	WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Euphorbia prostata W. Alt.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Euphorbia prostrata	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Euphorbia prostrata AIT.	WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2022 (WHO-UMC, 2022)
Euphorbia prostrata Ait.	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Market Med. Pl. of Monterrey, México (Nicholson & Arzeni, 1993) Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Trop. Africa (2015) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Euphorbia prostrata Aiton	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn. (DKRI, 2017) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014) Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. & Fungi Project (2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Euphorbia prostrata Aiton.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Euphorbia prostrata L.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Euphorbia prostrata W.Ait.	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 1st edn. (DKRI, 2008) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)

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