Unani Turanjeen.
Action A children’s laxative. Usually prescribed with other purgatives. (Not to be used in the presence of ileus.)
Key application In constipation where an easier elimination and a soft stool are desirable; in animents such as anal fissures, haemorrhoids and post-rectal and surgery. (German Commission F.)
The exudation contains 40—90% mannitol, 10—15% stachyose and mannotriose, glucose, fructose.
Fritillaria cirrhosa D. Don.
Family Liliaceae.
Habitat Central and Western Himalaya between 3,700 and 5,350 m.
Folk Yathu.
Action Corm—antiasthmatic, used for bronchitis and tuberculosis.
Fritillaria imperialis L.
Family Liliaceae.
Habitat Kashmir at 1,700—3,000 m.
English Crown Imperial, Imperial Fritillary.
Action Bulbs—emollient, diuretic, resolvent, spasmolytic, hypotensive, cardiotonic.
The bulbs contain steroidal alkaloids—ebeinone, eduardine, edpetilidine, verticinone, isoverticine and isobaimonidine and pimaradienic diterpene, oblongifolic acid.
Ebeinone exhibited anticholinergic activity.
Fritillaria roylei Hook.
Family Liliaceae.
Habitat Western temperate
Himalaya from Kashmir to Kumaon at 2,700—4,35 m.
Ayurvedic Kshira-Kaakoli, Viraa, Kaayasthikaa, Vaaysoli.
Action Used in the treatment of asthma, bronchitis and tuberculosis. (Withania somnfera is a substitute for Kaakoli and Kshira-Kaakoli.)
The bulbs gave alkaloids—peimine, peimisine, peimiphine, perminine, permidine and permitidine. The bulbs also gave neutral compounds—propeimin and a sterol. The plant gave kashmirine.
Dosage Bulb—3—6 g powder. (CCRAS.)
Fucus vesiculosus Linn.
Family Fucaceae. (Lam maria sp.) Habitat On the shores of the
United Kingdom, North Atlantic
