MEDICINAL PLANT LECTURE FOR BAMS STUDENTS

1. MEDICINAL PLANT LECTURE FOR 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 sized tree 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
• Heart wood ( Sara )
• Chemical constituents – Catechin, Catechu tannic acid ,
alkaloids quercetin and kaempferol, epikatechin,
epicatechin gallate

7. GUNA KARMA VIJNANA

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

10. CONTROVERSY IN IDENTITY

11. MORPHOLOGY
• A small much 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

14. GUNAKARMA VIJNANA

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
• Root bark
• Chemical constituents- 6- sitosterol, n-
triacontanol,Lapachol, scuttellarein, dehydrotectol, ceryl
alcohol , stearic acid etc

20. GUNA KARMA VIJNANA

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