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Botany name:Calotropis
gigantea
Habit : Shrub
Parts used : Root, root-bark, leaves and flowers
Constituents :Resins, caoutchoue, akudarin and calotroin.
Collection &storage:For medicinal uses the thic. rough corky
epitermis of the bark should be sraped off before the root bark is
reduced to powder.
Action :This drug is
like digitalis on the heart root
bark is alterative, tonic, antispasmodic, expectorent and in large
doses emetic. flowers are digestive, tonic, stomachic and expectorent.
milky juice is a violent, purgative, rubefacient and deodorant.
leaves are anthelmintic, alterative and stimulant.
Botany name :Capsium annum
Habit :Herb
Parts used :Fruit
Constituents :Capsium and solanine
Action :A Powerful
local irritant, heart and general stimulant, stomachic and tonic.
Botany name : Cardiospermu halicacabum
Habit :Herb
Parts used :Roots, leaves, seeds and the herb
Constituents :Seeds or fruits yield an essential oil and saponin.
Action : Root and the
leaves are diuretic, laxative, stomachic, alterative and emetic. it is
externally rubefacient.
Botany name :Carica papaya
Habit :Tree
Parts used :Fruit, milky juice, leaves and seeds
Constituents :The milky juice contains papain. this is similar to
pepsin, dry fruit contains soda, pottash and phosporic acid. leaves
contain carpie and carposide.
Action :Papain is
cabable of digesting fresh blood fibrane in
4 to 5 hours at the temprature of 50* c juice of the green fruit is emmenagogue
and rubefacient. ripe fruit is disestive and alterative.green fruit is laxative
and diuretic.
Botany name:Cassia angustifolia
Habit : Tree
Parts used :Pods and dried leave.
Constituents:Pods and leaves contain catharin.
Action :Catheric,
anthelmintic, purgative and diuretic.
Botany name :Cassia fistula
Habit :Tree
Parts used :Pulp of the fruit, roor-bark, flower, pods
leaves and roots.
Constituents :The powderded fruit contains a volatil. pulp,
consists of sugar, gum, gluten,colouring matter, and watter.
Action :Demulcent,
laxative, vermifuge, xpectorant anti-prutic and purgative.
Botany name :Cassia auriculata
Habit : Tree
Parts used :Roots, leaves, flowers, bark and seeds
Constituents :Bark contains tannin
Action :Flower,
leaf and bark are tonic and astringent,
seeds are refrigerant and attenuant. root in decoction is used as alterative.
Botany name :Cassia sophera
Habit : Tree
Parts used :Flowers and bark
Action
:Diuretic
and ant-rhematic
Botany name : Citrus acida
Habit : Tree
Parts used : Leaves and fruit.
Costituents : Rich in vitamin 'C' oil contains citrol pectin.
citric acid and anti-scorbutic acid.
Action :
Fruit is refrigerent, stomachic, appetizer
and antiseptic.
Botany name : Citrus media
Habit : Smaal tree
Parts used : Rind, juice and oil
Constituents : Oil is expressed from the rind of the fruit.
it contains citrine or limonene, citrol, cymene and citroneleal.
Action :
Yellow pulp is stomachic. rind is aromatic, stimulant, tonic, and antiscorbutic.
fruit juice is refrigerant,
astringent, digestive, antitoxic, aromatic and stomachic.
Botany name : Clerodendron inerme
Habit : Shrub
Parts used : Leaves and juice of the roots and the leaves.
Constituent : Leaves contain a bitter princeple. resin, gum
and ash contains sodium.
Action
: Tonic, febrifuge and alterative. leaves are mucilaginous, bitter fragrant,
cholagogue, antiphlogistic, expectorant, antisyphilithic, anti-rheumatic,
alexipharmic and antidote.
Botany name : Clerodendron
phlomoides
Habit : Small tree
Parts used : Leaves
Constituents : Oil is extracted from the leaves
Action
: Leaves are alterative and tonic. root is
aromatic and astringent. oil is anti-rhuematic.
Botany name : Coccinia indica
Habit : Climber
Parts used : Whole plant
Constituents : Root contains resins and the plant contains glucokenin.
Action
: Plant is diaphoretic, stimulant,diuretic and
cooling, leaves and stem are antispasmodic and expectorant, fruit is
bitter.
Botanynname : Coelosia klernii
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Whole plant
Constituent : Euphobon, gum, resin, caoutceouc and malate
of calcium.
Action
: Milky juice is in small doses purgative
in large doses an acrid, counter irritant and emitic.
Botany name : Coriandrum sativum
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Whole plant
Constituents : Plant contains albuminoids and soluble
carbohydrates. fruits yield a volatile essential oil, fixed oil
which contains fat, muscilage, tannin and malic acid.
Action
: Fruit is aromatic, stimulant, carminative, stomachic, antibilious,
refrigerant, tonic,
diuretic and aphrodisiac. fresh leaves are pungent and aromatic.
Botany name : Cucumis sativus
Habit : Creeper
Parts used : Fruit, seeds and leaves.
Constituents : Seeds contain fixed oil, starch, resin and
sugar fruit is in mineraks.
Action
: Fruit is nutrient, demulchent, refrigerant, diuretic, antiscorbutic,
stomachic and antidote,
ripend fruit is hydrogogue and expectorant,seeds are cooling and diuretic.
Botany name : Cuminum cyminum
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Fruit or seeds and an essential oil.
Constituents : Fatty oil, resin, mucilage gum,protein, compounds,maleates
and an essential oil,
a valuable essentialoil 'THYMEN' rich in 'CARVON' obtained from the seeds.
seeds also
contains cumind or cumic aldehyde, a mixture off hydrocarbons,
cymene or cymol, terpene etc.
Action
: Seeds are carminative, aromatic, stomachic ,stimulant and astringent. seeds
are cooling in effect.
Botany name : Curcuma amada
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Rhyzome
Constituents : Essential oil, resin and aromatic organic acids.
Action : Carminative,cooling,
aromatic, stomachic and astringent.
Botany name : Curcuma longa
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Tubers or rhizomes.
Constituents : An essential oil, and alkaloid, curcumine
turmeric oil and caproic acid.
Action
: Aromatic, stimulant, tonic, and carminative,
juice is anthelmintic.
Botany name : Cyamopsis tetragonoloba
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Pods, seeds,and foliage
Constituents : Rich in proteins
Action : Bilios,
rheumatic, antidote and cholagogue.
Botany name : Cyanotis cristata
Habit : Creeping herb
Parts used : Leaves root.
Action
: Anti-rheumatic, deostruent,diuretic and
emollient.
Botany name : Cynodon dactylon
Habit : Perennial
grass
Parts used : Herb, root-stalk and leaves
Action
: Astringent, alterative, styptic, diuretic,
emollient, stomachic and referigerant.
Botany name : Cyperus rotandus
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Tuber or bulbous root.
Action :
Astringent, stimulant, diuretic, diaphoretic, demulcent, emmenagogue,
vermifuge and lactagogue.
