Folk Sulemaani Khajuur, Desi Khajuur.
Action Fruits—restorative. Juice— cooling, gastric stimulant. Seeds— used in ague. Root—used for
nervous debility.
Fresh, unfermented sap (Niraa) is a good source of ascorbic acid, nicotinic and isonicotinic acids, riboflavin, thiamine, sugars; crystine, leucine, isoleucine, lysine, phenylalanine, threonine, tyrosine.
The concentration of amino acids is much higher in palm jaggery than in sugar cane jaggery.
Fresh fruits contain protein 1.2, fat 0.4, calcium 0.022 and phosphorus
0.38%.
Dosage Fruit—10—20 g paste. (CCRAS.)
Pholidota articulata Lindi.
Family Orchidaceae.
480 Phragmites communis Trin.
Ayurvedic Jivanti (substitute). of 10:19:94; some of the fractions showed (Dendrobium macraei Lindi. is also immunological activity.
used as a substitute for Jivanti.
Jivanti is equated with Leptadenia
reticulata W. & A.)
Phragmites karka Trin. ex Steud.
Action Age-sustaining tonic,
restorative. Synonym P roxburghii (Kunth)
Steud.
P maxima Blatter & McCann in
part.
Phragmites communis Trin.
Family Gram ineae; Poaceae.
Family Gramineae; Poaceae. Habitat Throughout India, in
Habitat The Himalayas, from marshy places.
Kashmir to Kumaon up to an English Common Reed-grass. altitude of 4,000 m.
Ayurvedic Nala. (Arundo donax
English Common Reed. Linn. is also equated with Nala.)
Folk Dila, Dambu (Punjab). Siddha/Tamil Perunanal.
