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Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Sciences-Assiut University. 2009; 32 (2): 279-300
in English
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ABSTRACT
The genus Ruellia L. is sometimes called Dipteracanthus, it comprises about 150 species native to tropical and temperate North and South America. Ruellia brittoniana Leonard is known as Britton's wild petunia, wild petunia, Mexican bluebell and Ruellia tweediana Grisebach. Some species of genus Ruellia are used medicinally to cure gonorrhoea, syphilis, eye sores and in renal infections