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Botany name : Abrus precatorius
Habit : Climbing shurb
Parts used : Roots, seeds, leaves.
Constituens : Seeds contain poisonous proteins
and the roots contain glycyrrhizin.
Action : Leaves are laxative, expectorant and
aphrodisiac, seeds are purgative,
emietic,tonic antiphlogistic, aphrodisiac and anti-
opthalmic.
Botany name : Acacia
arabica
Habit : Tree
Parts used : Bark, gum,leaves, seeds and .pods.
Constituents : Gum contains arabic acids combined with
calcium magnesium and potacium.
Action : Astringent, demulcent,aphrodisiac,nutritive and
expectorant. bark is
powerful astringent.pods are expectorant.
Botany
name : Acalypha fruticosa Habit : Herb Parts used : Leaves and roots.. Action
: Alterative,
attenuate ,stomachic, antibilios and alexipharmi.
Botany name : Aacalypha indica
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Whole plant
Constituents : Acalypus and acaliphine.
Action : Cathartic,
antihelmintic, emetic, expectorant, emmenagogue, anodyne,
hypnotic and stomachic.
Botany name : Aachranthes aspera
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Whole plant
Constituents : Fruit contains a large percentage of alkaloid and ash
containing potash.
Action : Leaves are
astringent, diuretic, alterative and antiperiodic root is purgative
and anti-lithic. abortifacient, uterine sedative, emetic and emmenagogue and
parturifacient.
Botany name : Adathoda vasica
Habit : Shrub
Parts used : Leaves, roots, flowers and barks.
Constituents : A Volatile essentiol oil, fat resin, a bitter non volatile,
alkaloid called
vasicine, an organicacid "ADOTHODIC ACID" The antiseptic properties of the
leaves is due to the volatic princeple.
Action : Expectorant,
diuretic, anti-spasmodic and alterative.
Botany
name: Aegle marmelos
Habit : Tree
Parts used : Fruit [both ripe and unripe] root
bark, leaves, rined of the ripe and flowers.
Constituents : The pulp contains mucilade, pectin,
sugar tannin, volatile oil and ash. the wood-ash
contains potassium and sodium compounds, phosphates of
lime and iron, calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate,
slica etc. leaves yield an oil.
Action : Rip fruit is sweet, aromatic, cooling,
alterative and nutritive. unripe fruit is astringent,
digestive, stomachic, and little constipative. pulp, is
stimulant, antipyretic and antiscorbutic, fresh juice is
bitter and pungent.
Botany name : Agati grandiflora
Habit : Shrub
Parts used : Leaves , flowers, bark.
Constituents : Vitamin A ,C,& D,leaves are rich in
calcium.
Action : Astringent, laxative,
refrigerant,digestive, cooling, antidote.
Botany name : Aloe
indica
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Leaves.
Constituents : It contains amixure of glucosides
collectively called 'ALOIN'.
Action :Stomachic, tonic in small doses
purgative and indirectly emmenagogue and anthelmintic.
Botany name : Anamirtta cocculus seed ( fish berry)
Habit : Climbing Shrup
Parts used : Seed
Constituents : Picrotoxin, Cocculin and Anamirtin.
Action : Emetic ,Parasiticide and Narcotic. This
Transquilises The Fishes. The Seeds Are Used To
Eradicate Lices. This Is Also Used In Treating Epilepsy,
Paralysis And Head Ache.For The Boils And Feruncles This
Is Used
As An External Application. The Seed Are Also Used To
Cure Ashthma.
Botany name : Andrographis
paniculatas
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Whole plant
Constituents : Leaves contain an essential oil and
kameghin is extracted from this plant.
Action : Roots and leaves are stomachic, tonic,
antipyretic, alterative,anthelmintic,febrifuge,
choagogue, hepatic, stimulant and antiphloglistic.
Botany name:
Anisochilus carnosus
Habit : Herb
Parts used : Leaves
Constituents : Volatile essential oil
Action : Volatil oil is stimulant, diaphoretic
and expectorant.
Botany name: Annona squamosa
Habit : Tree
Parts used : Fruits, leaves, bark,root and seeds.
Constituents : Seeds yield an oil, amorphous alkaloid and toxic resin.
Action : Fruit is
cooling and cholagogue. seeds and leaves are anthelmintic,
detergent and insecticide. roots is purgative. bark is astringent and toxic.
Botany
name : Aristolochia bracteata
Habit : Shrub
Parts used : Herb, seeds and leaves and "almost every part of the plant"
Constituents : A Volatile substance, an alkaloid and salts.
Action : Anthelmintic,
purgative, emmenogogue,stimulant,alterative, anti-periodic and tonic.
Botany
name: Aristolochia indica
Habit : Twiner
Parts used : Roort,rhzome [stem] and leaves
Constituents : It contains an aromatic oil, isoranillin,
arists linsdure and aristolochiasdure.
Action : It is stimulant, emmenagogue, emetic
abortivum, antidote.
