10. Delphinium coeruleum, Jacq.

The medicinal plant Delphinium coeruleum is a member of the Ranunculaceae (buttercup) family. This page includes its habitat, botanical descption, medicinal uses (eg., Ayurveda), chemical constituents and history of use in modern and ancient India.

Index in Flora of British India (Hooker): 1. 25.

Vernacular:—Dakhanga (Pb.).

Habitat:—Alpine Himalaya, from Kumaon to Sikkim.

Botanical description:—An erect herb.

Stem: 3-12 in., much-branched from the base, leafy, spreading.

Leaves: suborbicular, 1¼-1½ in. diam., 5-7 lobed, lobes cuncate—oblong, incised or pinnatifid, segments linear.

Radical leaves: divided to the base.

Flowers: solitary in long branches or few in a loose raceme, pale blue, hairy.

Sepals: shorter than the nearly straight spur.

Spur: subulate.

Anterior petals: obovate or obcordate, a little hairy.

Follicles: 5, hairy.

Medicinal uses:—The root is applied to kill the maggots in the wounds of goats. (Stewart.)