''Bergenia ligulata'' (''Paashaanbhed'', ''Prashanbheda'', and other spellings in

Ayurveda Ayurveda () is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The theory and practice of Ayurveda is pseudoscientific. Ayurveda is heavily practiced in India and Nepal, where around 80% of the population rep ...

traditional Indian medicine) is a plant belonging to the family

Saxifragaceae Saxifragaceae is a family of herbaceous perennial flowering plants, within the core eudicot order Saxifragales. The taxonomy of the family has been greatly revised and the scope much reduced in the era of molecular phylogenetic analysis. The fa ...

and the genus ''

Bergenia ''Bergenia'' (elephant-eared saxifrage, elephant's ears) is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Saxifragaceae, native to central Asia, from Afghanistan to China and the Himalayan region. Description They are clump-forming, ...

''. It is plant is sometimes treated as a form of ''

Bergenia ciliata ''Bergenia ciliata'' (fringed elephant's ears, winter begonia, hairy bergenia, Hindi & Sanskrit : ''Pashanbheda'', पाषाणभेद) is a plant species in the genus ''Bergenia'', deciduous in Usda zone, USDA Zones 5 to 7, but usually rema ...

''. It is mostly found in temperate regions of the Himalayas from Kashmir to

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...

and in Khasia hills at altitude.

Chemical constituents

''Bergenia ligulata'' contains a phenolic compound

bergenin Bergenin, alias cuscutin, is trihydroxybenzoic acid glycoside. It is the C-glycoside of 4-O-methyl gallic acid. It possesses an O-demethylated derivative called norbergenin. These are chemical compounds and drugs of Ayurveda, commonly known as P ...

, and afzelechin, a type of flavan-3-ol.

References

ligulata Plants used in Ayurveda {{Saxifragaceae-stub