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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
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.
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 : 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 :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.
