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Khadira -Pashanabheda- Patala
1. The document discusses three medicinal plants - Khadira, Pashanabheda, and Patala. 2. Khadira is Acacia catechu and is used for its heartwood. Pashanabheda is Rotula aquatica and its roots are used. Patala is Stereospermum colais and its root bark is used. 3. Each plant's morphology, chemical constituents, guna, karma, and uses are described based on Ayurvedic texts like Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita.
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- 1. MEDICINAL PLANT LECTUREFOR BAMS STUDENTS KHADIRA-PASHANABHEDA-PATALA
- 2. KHADIRA • Acacia catechu •Mimosoideae • Cutch tree • Gayatri, Dantadhavana,Raktasara,Somavalka,Kantaki, Balapatra Ganas Charaka- Kushdhaghna, Udarda prashamana, Kashaya skandha Susrut- Salasaradi Vagbhata- Asanadi
- 3. VARIETIES • Samhitas- Khadira,, Kadara • Dhanwanthari Nighantu- Khadira • Rajanighantu- Khadira, Somavalka, Tamrakantaka , Vitkhadira and Arimeda
- 4. MORPHOLOGY • Moderate sizedtree with dark greyish brown bark exfoliating in long narrow strips • Sapwood yellowish white but heartwood is red • Leaves are pinnate with a pair of recurved prickles at the base of the rachis , pinnae 40-80, leaflets 60-100, small and ligulate • Flowers – Dark yellow in cylindrical spikes • Fruits- Thin glabrous straight dark brown pods
- 6. USEFUL PART • Heartwood ( Sara ) • Chemical constituents – Catechin, Catechu tannic acid , alkaloids quercetin and kaempferol, epikatechin, epicatechin gallate
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- 8. GUNA KARMAS • Rasa–Tikta, Kashaya • Guna- Laghu, rooksha • Veerya- Seeta • Vipaka – Katu • Dosage • Powder of bark- 1-3 gms • Powder of heart wood- 0.5- 1 gm • Yogas- Khadiraashtaka, Khadiraarishta, Khadiradi taila etc
- 9. PASHANABHEDA • Rotula aquatica •Boraginaceae • Ashmaghna, Shilabehda, Ashmabheda , Giribheda , Ashmacchida etc Ganas Charaka – Mutravirechaniya Susruta- Veeratarvadi gana Vagbhata- Veeratarvadi gana
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- 11. MORPHOLOGY • A smallmuch branched shrub with numerous short lateral arrested rooting branchlets • Leaves- Simple, nearly sessile , spathulate, rounded at the apex , more or less hairy, crowded on the branches • Flowers- Pinkish or reddish , shortly pedicellate , single or 2-3 together on short lateral branches , stamens exerted beyond the corolla tube • Fruits- Subglobose orange red drupes tipped with remains of style
- 13. USEFUL PART • Roots •Chemical constituents – Alkaloids, flavonoids, -phenolic compounds, steroids and nutrients like aminoacids , Allantoin and a sterol rhabdiol
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- 15. GUNA KARMAS • Rasa– Tikta, kashaya • Guna- Laghu, rooksha • Veerya –Seeta • Vipaka – Katu • Dosage – Powder- 3-6 gms • Yogas – Pashanabhedadi ghrita,Pashana bhedadi kwatha , Pashanabhedadi choorna etc
- 16. PATALA • Stereospermum colais •Bignoniceae • Krishnavrintha, Kaashta patala,Ghanta patala, Tamra pushpi,Madhudhti, Seeta phala etc • Ganas • Charaka – Sotha hara • Susruta- Aragwadhadi,Brihat panchamoola,Adhobhagahara • Vagbhata- Aragwadhadi
- 17. VARIETIES & MORPHOLOGY •BP- Tamra pushpa, Swetha pushp • A large deciduous tree with a straight trunk and fairly smooth yellowish brown bark • Leaves imparipinnate , large, clustered towards the end of the branchlets , leaflets- 3-6 paired , short stalked , often unequal sided at the base, main nerves- 8-10 pairs • Flowers- Yellow , tinged withr ed fragrant , inlax drooping terminal cymose panicles • Fruits- Capsules , seeds winged at each seed and wings are membranous • Roots – Dull brown cylindrical , hard and heavy with transversely extended lenticels
- 19. USEFUL PART • Rootbark • Chemical constituents- 6- sitosterol, n- triacontanol,Lapachol, scuttellarein, dehydrotectol, ceryl alcohol , stearic acid etc
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- 21. GUNA KARMAS • Rasa– Tuvara, Tikta • Guna- Laghu, rooksha • Veerya- Anushna • Vipaka – Katu • Dosage –Kwatha kalpana – 50-100 ml, Kshara – 1-1.5 gm • Yogas – Indukantham kashaya, Damoolaarishta , Dasamoola hareethaki etc