Ayurvedic Lajj aalu, Laaj avanti, Namaskaari, Samangaa, Sankochini, Shamipatraa, Khadirkaa, Raktapaadi.
Unani Chhuimui, Sharmii, Laajwanti.
Siddha/Tamil Thottalsurungi.
Action Leaf—astringent, alterative, antiseptic, styptic, blood purifier.
Used for diarrhoea, dysentery, haemophiic conditions, leucorrhoea, morbid conditions of
vagina, piles, fistula, hydrocele and glandular swellings. Root—used
in gravel and urinary complaints. A decoction is taken to relieve
asthma.
The plant contains mimosine and turgorin. The periodic leaf movements exhibited by the plant are due to presence of derivatives of 4-0- (beta-D-glucopyranosyl-6’ -sulphate)
gallic acid. The aerial parts of the plant contain C-glycosylflavones, 2”- 0-rhamnosylorientin and 2”-O- rhamnosylisoorientin.
Dosage Whole plant, root—lO— 20 ml juice; 50—100 ml decoction. (CCRAS.) Whole plant—l0—20 g for decoction. (API, Vol. II.)
Mimusops elengi Linn.
Family Sapotaceae.
Habitat Cultivated in North India, Western Peninsula and South India.
English Spanish-Cherry, West Indian Medlar, Bullet Wood.
Ayurvedic Bakula, Keshara, Simhakeshara, Sthiraa, Sthirapushpa, Vishaarada, Dhanvi, Madhupushpa, Madhugandha, Chirpushpa, Maulsiri.
Unani Molsari.
Siddha Magilam.
Action Pulp of ripe fruit—astringent; used in chronic dysentery. Flowers, fruit and bark—astringent. Bark—given for promoting fertility in women. Seeds—purgative. The leaves contain sterols, reducing sugars and tannins; roots, a steroidal saponin; stem bark, spinasterol and taraxerol; flowers, D-mannitol, beta-sitosterol and beta-sitosterolD-glycoside; seeds, pentacyclic triterpene acids, mimusopic and mimusopsic acids.
Essential oil obtained from the plant is reported to be mycotoxic. Antimicrobial activity of the root extract has
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been reported. Saponins isolated from the seeds have been found to effect the cardiovascular activity in
