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Cyclea peltata, also called patha or Indian moon-seed (not to be confused with Tinospora cordifolia or "heart-leaved moonseed", from the same family Menispermaceae), is a climbing shrub found across India and Sri Lanka, in habitats ranging from Moist Deciduous Forests to Tropical Forests and Plains.
Cyclea peltata is used in Indigenous Indian medicinal systems as a wound healer, an antidote to poisons, and for various digestive, skin and inflammatory disorders. It is a common component of the traditional Ayurvedic Polyherbal formulation Shaddharana Choornam, along with Plumbago zeylanica, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Picrorhiza kurroa, Aconitum heterophyllum, Terminalia chebula, Berberis aristata and Cyperus rotundus, whose formulation is mentioned in Vagbhata's Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha and Charaka's Charaka Samhita.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cyclea peltata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
