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Crude drug name | Market name | BARUN BARAK |
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| Formal name | Varuna | |
Other names Tips！ | Lunu-warana (Sin), Kumaarakah (S), Barun (B), Barun (H), Nirvala (K), Neermaatalam (M), Vivapatri (Te), Varanam, Mavilangai (Ta) | |
| English name | Three-leaved Caper | |
| Original plant name | Crataeva magna DC. (= Crataeva religiosa G. Forst.), Three-leaved Caper | |
| Family name | Capparaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | bark |
| Collection information | India, Kolkata, West Bengal , Dr. Alok Kumar Daw | |
| Collection date | 2000/12/19 | |
| Collector | Katsuko Komatsu | |
| TMPW No. | 20540 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Ayurvedic name or Sanskrit name, English name | Varuna, Three-leaved Caper | ||||
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| Synonyms | Kumaraka, Urumanakhya, Tamala, Svetadruma, Marudaghna, Vyadhitaru, Tiktasaka, Varana, Svetapuspa, Sadhuvrksa, Marutapaha, Padapastikta, Triparna, Bhragarapriya, Vilvapatra, Vrttaphala, Barhapuspa, Kasayaka. | |||||
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| Original plant name | Crataeva magna DC. (= Crataeva religiosa G. Forst.) | |||||
| Family name | Capparaceae | |||||
| Used part | Bark | |||||
| Distribution area | Occurs in India, Ceylon, Malaya, East Africa and Philippine Islands. In Ceylon, it is rather common in the dry districts of Jaffna, Trincomalee, Dambulla, Kekirawa and Hambantota. | |||||
| Common uses | Bark is astringent, anthelmintic, carminative, diuretic, laxative, digestive, stomachic, lithontropic, expectorant, antiperiodic and tonic. It improves digestive power and purifies blood. It is used in the treatment of arthritis, internal abscesses, dysuria, calculus, cough, asthma, bronchitis, intermittent fevers, inflammations, renal and vesical calculi, vaginismus, hepatopathy, visceromegaly, tubercular glands, bladder and uterine affections and skin diseases. In Ceylon, a decoction of the powdered bark is given for stones in the kidney or bladder, dropsy, enlargement of abdominal viscera, scrofula and painful micturition. Bark and leaves form a good external application for painful rheumatic swellings. Bark has a stimulating action on the liver. An extract is given as a laxative and for promoting appetite. A decoction of the bark is prescribed in scrofulous enlargements of the glands under the lower jaw. | |||||
| Therapeutic uses | Gulma (phantom tumour/tumor), Vatasra (vitiation of blood by vatha), Krmi (worm infestation), Vidradhi (abscess), Asmari (calculus), Sirsaroga (diseases of the head), Raktadosa (vitiation of blood), Sirsavata (pacifies Vata situated in the head), Hrdroga (heart disease), Mutraghata (retention of urine). | |||||
| Medical system | Ayurveda (Traditional Indian medicine) | |||||
| Traditional concept | Rasa (Taste) | Tikta (Bitter), Kasaya (Astringent) | ||||
| Virya (Potency) | Usna (Hot) | |||||
| Guna (Quality) | Laghu (Light), Ruksa (Dry) | |||||
| Vipaka (Post digestive taste) | Katu (Pungent) | |||||
| Karma (General action) | Bhedi (purgative), Agnidipana (increases digestive fire), Raktadosahara (removes impurities in the blood), Krmighna (anthelmintic). | |||||
| Dosakarma (Action on dosa) | Decreases Kapha Vata, increases Pitta | |||||
| Mala (Action on excretory mechanism) | Bhedi (purgative) | |||||
| Avayava (Action on organ) | Sirsarogahara (diseases of the head). | |||||
| Formulation | Varunadi kvatha, Varunadi ghrta | |||||
| Comments | Flowers of Varuna are constipative, pacifies Pitta and morbidity of Vata. Fruits of Varuna are heavy, unctuous and sweet. It is hot in potency and sweet in post digestive effect. It pacifies all the three dosas. Crataeva magna, C. religiosa, C. nurvala are considered to be synonymous. Its synonym svetadruma indicates that the tree is whitish to look at. It is called tiktasaka as the leaves are bitter in taste. As it bears whitish flowers it is called svetapuspa. As it resembles tamala tree it is called tamala. As the leaf arrangement is similar to that of bilva it is called bilvapatra. As the fruit is round in shape it is called vrttaphala. | |||||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | [2] Indian Medicinal Plants - A Compendium of 500 species, Varier, P.S., Orient Longman Ltd. Chennai (Madras) Vol. 2 (Repr.1997), pp 202-205. Ayurvedic Drugs and Their Plant Sources, 1994. Sivarajan, V.V. and Balachandran, I., Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi p 550. Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay p 388. Medicinal plants (Indigenous and exotic) used in Ceylon, Vols. 1-5, 1982. Jayaweera, D.M.A., The National Science Council of Sri Lanka, Colombo Vol. 2, p 1. Dravyagunavijnana, Vols. 1-5, reprint 1998. Sharma, P.V., Chowkhambha Bharati Academy, Varanasi Vol. 2, pp 652-654. Classical uses of Medicinal Plants, 1996. Sharma, P.V., Chaukhambha Visvabharati, Varanasi p 338. | ||||
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