Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | Chhal bel |
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| Formal name | Vilva | |
Other names Tips！ | Bilvamool chal (T), Belmool chal (B), Bel jar chal (H), Bela (K), Koovalam (M), Maredu (Te), Vilvam (Ta), Beli (Sin) | |
| English name | Bael Tree | |
| Original plant name | Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr., Bael Tree | |
| Family name | Rutaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | root bark |
| Collection information | India, New Delhi , Hans Raj & Sons | |
| Collection date | 1991/05/07 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba, et al. | |
| Remarks | This sample seems to be stem bark. | |
| TMPW No. | 12431 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Ayurvedic name or Sanskrit name, English name | Vilva (Root), Bael Tree | ||||
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| Original plant name | Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. | |||||
| Family name | Rutaceae | |||||
| Used part | Root, Fruit, Flowers | |||||
| Distribution area | Occurs in dry hilly places throughout the warmer parts of India and often cultivated in the mild and low country in Ceylon. | |||||
| Remarks | Common | |||||
| Common uses | Vilva is astringent, cooling, carminative, laxative, restorative, stomachic and is used in colitis, dysentery, diarrhoea/diarrhea, flatulence, difficult micturition, fever, vomiting and colic. Root bark is used in the form of a decoction for intermittent fever, hypochondria, melancholia and palpitation of the heart. It checks diarrhoea and gastric troubles in children. Root of this tree is one of the ingredients of the group Dasamula (the ten roots in Ayurveda). | |||||
| Chemical constituent | Triterpenoids From Stem Bark: Lupenone (*C4), Lupeol (*C4) From Heartwood: Lupeol (*C5) Sterols Stigmasterol (*C4, *C5), Sitosterol (*C4) Anthraquinones From Heartwood: 7,8-Dimethoxy-1-hydroxy-2-methylanthraquinone (*C6), 6-Hydroxy-1-methoxy-3-methylanthraquinone (*C6) 1,8-Dihydroxy-2-methoxy-7-methyl-anthraquinone (*C7) Coumarins From Roots: Marminal (*C1), 7'-O-Methylmarmin (*C1) From Leaves: 7-(2,6-Dihydroxy-7-mathoxy-7-methyl-3-octaenyloxy)coumarin (*C2) From Bark: Aeglin (*C3), Chloromarmin (*C3) From Heatrwood: 7H-Furo[3,2-g][1]benzopyran-7-one,9-(beta-D-glucopyranosyl) (*C5), 7H-Furo[3,2-g][1]benzopyran-7-one,9-hydroxy (*C5), 7H-Furo[3,2-g][1]benzopyran-7-one,9-[(2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)] (*C5) Phenol derivatives Phenol, 2-[2-(acetyloxy)ethenyl]-5-methoxy (*C5), Phenol, 2-[2-(acetyloxy)ethenyl]-5-methox-,acetate (*C5), 2-[1-Methyl-1-(3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyl-tetrahydro-pyran-2-yloxy)-ethyl]-2,3-dihydro-furo[3,2-g]c hromen-7-one(*C7) | |||||
| Pharmacological effect | Root has exhibited antiamoebic and hypoglycaemic properties. The methanolic extract of root bark inhibited the beating rate of cultured mouse myocardial cells. Among the isolated constituents auraptin is found to be the most potent inhibitor comparable with verapamil. Marmin, a coumarin, isolated from ethanolic extract of the roots showed antiinflammatory effect on carrageenin induced inflammation in rats. | |||||
| Medical system | Ayurveda (Traditional Indian medicine) | |||||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | [2] Indian Medicinal Plants - A Compendium of 500 species, Varier, P.S., Orient Longman Ltd. Chennai (Madras) Vol. 1 (Repr.1996), p 62. Ayurvedic Drugs and Their Plant Sources, 1994. Sivarajan, V.V. and Balachandran, I., Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi p 515. 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. 5, p 5. | ||||
| Research paper | *C1 Xiuwei, Y., Hattori, M. and Namba, T.; J. Chin. Pharm. Sci., 5, 68-73 (1906). *C2 Ali, M. S. and Pervez, M. K.; Nat. Prod. Res., 18, 141-46 (2004). *C3 Ohashi, K., Watanabe, H., Ohi, K., Arimoto, H. and Okumura, Y.; Chem. Lett., (10), 881-82 (1995). *C4 Riyanto, S., Sukari, M. A. and Rahmani, M.; Majalah Farmasi Indonesia, 11, 17-24 (2000). *C5 Jain, A. K., Srivastava, S. and Srivastava, S. D.; J. Indian Chem. Soc.., 68, 452-54 (1991). *C6 Srivastava, S. D., Srivastava, S. and Srivastava, S. K., Fitoterapia, 67, 83-84 (1996). *C7 Nema, D. and Srivastava, S. K.; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., India, Sect. A, 61, 465-68 (1991). | |||||
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