This document summarizes three medicinal plants - Salmali, Sanghapushpi, and Satavari. It describes their Sanskrit names, parts used, chemical constituents, varieties, morphology, and recommended dosages. For each plant, it lists the key details like botanical name, family, uses according to Charaka and Susrutha, parts containing active chemicals, self-work instructions and common formulations. The summary provides a high-level overview of the three plants discussed in the document in 3 sentences.

1. Salmali, Sanghapushpi & Satavari
Detailed Dravyas for BAMS students
Dr. Remya Krishnan

2. Salmali
• Salmalia malabarica
• Bombocaceae
• Kandakandhya , Picchila , Mocha, Mocha rasa , Raktapushpa, Sthirayu
• Charaka –Purisha virajaneeya,Sonithaasthapana , Vedanaasthapana ,
Kahaya skandhas
• Susrutha – Pryangwadi

3. Varieites , Morphology
• Salmali- Bombax malabaricum
• Kuta salmali- Ceiba pentantra
• A tall deciduous tree with a straight buttressed trunk having a clear bole of
24-30m and spreading branches
• Bark is grey or brown covered with hard, sharp conical prickles
• Leaves- Large , spreading , glabrous, digitate, lanceolate leaflets , 3-7 entire
• Flowers – Red numerous , appearing when the tree is bare of leaves ,
stamens arranged in five bundles of 9-12 each .
• Fruits- Capsule dehiscing by five valves
• Gummy exudate – Light brown in colour , gradually becoming opaque and
dark brown

5. Chemical constituents
• Useful part- Gum , stem bark
• Chemical constituents – Bark exudate – Gallic and Tannic acid , D-
Galacto pyranose

6. • Write RP, DK, BK, RK
Dosage Gum -1-3 gms
• Yogas – Salmali ghrita

7. Sankhapushpi
• Clitoria ternatea
• Asphota , Girikarnika, vishnukrantha
• Charaka – Sirovirechanopaga
• Susrutha & Vagbhata – Not mentioned
• Vraieties – Shwetha and Nila ( Dhanwanthari Nighantu)
• White and blue flowered varieties

9. Chemical constituents
• Useful part- Root, root bark
• Chemical constituents –Aparajatin, Taraxerol, Taraxerone , Alpha and
Beta sitosterol , Robinin, Quercitin, Kaempferol,Ternatins

10. Self work
• Write RP, DK,RK and BK
• Root powder 1-3 gms
• Yogas- Garbhapala rasa

11. Satavari
• Asparagus racemosus
• Liliaceae
• Synonyms – Indivara, Bahusuta,Madabhanjani, Satamuli, Satavirya ,
Sukshma patra, Atirasa
• Charaka – balya, Vayahsthapana ,Madhura skandhas
• Susrutha-Vidarigandhadi, Pitta samshamana , Kantaka panchamula
• Vagbhata –Vidarigandhadi
• Vraieties- Satavari, Mahasatavari
• Asparagus racemose and Asparagus sarmentosa

12. Morphology
• An armed climbing undershrub with woody terete stems and
recurved rarely straight spines
• Young stems very delicate , brittle and smooth
• Leaves reduced to minute chaffy scales and spines
• Triquetrous cladodescurved in tufts
• Flowers white fragnantin simple or branched racemes on naked
nodes of main shoots or in axils of thorns
• Fruits – Globular or three lobed , purple berries, purplish black when
ripe
• Seeds with hard and brittle testa

14. Useful part and chemical constituents
• Useful part- Root
• Chemical constituents –Sarsapogenin,Two Spirostanolic and two
Furostanolic saponins , Sitosterol, Asparagamine

15. Self work
• Write RP, DK, BK and RK
• Dosage
• Fresh juice- 10-20 ml
• Decoction- 50-100 ml
• Powder – 3-6 gms
Yogas- Satavari guda, Satavari ghrita