villosol, villosinol, villinol and villosone.
The fresh root is credited with hypoglycaemic properties, but leaves did
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not show any such effect. The juice of the leaf is given in dropsy. Ayurvedic classical texts describe it as a special drug for treating sterility in women.
Boiled leaves of T. unflora subspecies petrosa (Kant-punkhaa) are used for the treatment of syphilis. The medicinal properties of the plant are more or less similar to those of T purp urea, but to a milder degree.
T spinosa Pers. (South India, ascending to 400 m in hills) is also known as Kant-punkhaa (Mulukolingi in Tamil Nadu).
The root is applied to inflammations and swellings of joints; a decoction is given in rheumatism.
Chalcones, spinochalones A and B and flemistrictin A have been isolated from the root. Spinochalone C and spinoflavonones A and B, and fulvinervin A have been isolated from the plant.
Dosage Plant, root, seed—3—5 g powder. (CCRAS.)
Teramnus labialis Spreng.
Family Papilionaceae.
Habitat Punjab, eastwards to Bengal, extending southwards into Peninsular India.
Ayurvedic Maashaparni, Mahaasahaa, Suuryaasani, Lomash-parni, Kaamboja, Krishna-vrintaa. (In Kerala different species of Vigna are used as Maashaparni.)
Action Fruit—astringent, stomachic, febrifugal; also used as a nervine tonic in tuberculosis, haemoptysis, rheumatism and paralysis. Considered invigorating in Indian medicine.
The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India recommends the plant in spermatorrhoea.
In Ayurvedic texts, Maashaparni and Mudgaparni together form a group of rejuvenating drugs.
Mudgaparni is equated with Phaseolus trilobus. Maashaparni and Maasha (Vigna mungo) are different drugs.
Dosage Whole plant—5—l0 g powder. (API, Vol.111.)
Terminalia arjuna (Roxb.) W. & A.
Family Combretaceae.
Habitat Throughout the greater part of India, also grown as an avenue tree.
English Arjun Terminalia.
Ayurvedic Arjuna, Dhananjaya, Kaakubha, Kakubha, Aartagala, Indravriksha, Paartha, Virataru, Viravriksha.
