Cannabis sativa L

Botanical Name:

Cannabis sativa L

Family Name:

Cannabaceae

Local Name:

Thonchi

Urdu Name:

Bhang

English name:

Hemp

Part used:

Leaves, seed, stem

Flowering:

August - October

Description:

Cannabis sativa is an erect annual herb, very slightly branched, rough, angular stem, bearing numerous opposite palmate leaves of 5 to 7 leaflets on long petioles with acute stipules. Leaves are linear/lanceolate, tapering at both ends with sharply serrate margins. Plant is dioeciously in which male and female reproductive organs are born on separate plants. Flowers small greenish yellow. Fruit is a small smooth brownish gray achene.

Habitat:

Cultivated in Gilgit / Baltistan.

Medicinal uses:

Cannabis sativa is used as analgesic-hypnotic, topical anaesthetic, antibiotic, antispasmodic. Plant is also used as tonic, intoxicant, stomachic, analgesic, narcotic, sedative and anodyne.

Locally, in Gilgit/Baltistan the seeds of plants cultivated in vegetable gardens are eaten with dry fruit like mulberry and kernel of apricot.

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