{"id":19657,"date":"2024-01-23T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T03:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19657"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:32:13","slug":"andrographis-theniensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/andrographis-theniensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrographis theniensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Andrographis theniensis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0a plant, which was named \u2018Andrographis theniensis\u2019 after the location (Theni).<\/li>\n<li>The new plant resembles Andrographis megamalayana.<\/li>\n<li>It has glabrous leaves and stems, a nine-veined lower lip, pale yellowish sparse hair on the middle lobe of the lower lip and yellow anther.<\/li>\n<li>Andrographis is a\u00a0tropical Asian genus native to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the West Himalaya.<\/li>\n<li>However, a majority of Andrographis taxa are distributed in southern India and Sri Lanka, particularly in\u00a0Western and Eastern Ghats.<\/li>\n<li>There are nearly 25 Andrographis species in India.<\/li>\n<li>Uses: This genus is traditionally used to\u00a0treat various ailments such as cold, cough, fever, jaundice, diarrhoea, cardiovascular and hepatic diseases in both codified and non-codified medicinal systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Andrographis paniculata?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a medicinal herb cultivated in South Asia. In the United States, supplements made from this herb are used to relieve respiratory infections and inflammatory conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/hyderabad\/new-plant-species-discovered-in-western-ghats-by-t-researcher\/articleshow\/107022167.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New plant species discovered in Western Ghats by T researcher<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrographis theniensis plant, tropical, ailments, Andrographis megamalayana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}