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Crude drug name | Market name | Nagkesar |
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| Formal name | Nagakesara | |
Other names Tips！ | Naagkeshar (T), Naageshwara (B), Naagkesara (H), Surungi (K), Seraya, Surampunna (M), Naagkesaramu, Surapunnagamu (Te), Nagappu, Surabunnai (Ta), Naaga he sara (Ti) | |
| English name | Cobra Saffron | |
| Original plant name | Mammea suriga (Ham.) Kosterm. (= Mammea longifolia Pl. et Tri.) (= Ochrocarpus longifolius Benth. et Hook. f.), Cobra Saffron | |
| Family name | Clusiaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | flos |
| Production area information | India | |
| Collection information | India, Dibrugarh, Assam , Shree Vishwanath Marwari Databye Aushadhalaya | |
| Collection date | 1997/05/05 | |
| Collector | Katsuko Komatsu, et al. | |
| TMPW No. | 17388 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Ayurvedic name or Sanskrit name, English name | Nagakesara, Cobra Saffron | |||
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| Original plant name | Mammea suriga (Ham.) Kosterm. (= Mammea longifolia Pl. et Tri.) (= Ochrocarpus longifolius Benth. et Hook. f.) | ||||
| Family name | Clusiaceae | ||||
| Used part | Flower buds | ||||
| Distribution area | Western India from Khandala southwards to Malabar and Coimbatore, upto an altitude of 600m in the hills. | ||||
| Remarks | Common. | ||||
| Common uses | Flower buds possess mild stimulant, carminative and astringent properties. They are useful in fever, bleeding piles, dyspepsia, gastritis, haemorrhoids/hemorrhoids, leucoderma, headache, snake and scorpion bites, and abdominal inflammation. | ||||
| Chemical constituent | Sesquiterpenoids beta-Caryophyllene (*C4), delta-Cadinene (*C4), alpha-Copaene (*C4), Linalool (*C4), alpha-Humulene (*C4), alpha-Muurolene (*C4) Flavones & Flavonols Quercetin 3-O-(2",4" di-E-p-coumaroyl)-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (*C1), Quercetin 3-O-(3",4" di-E-p-coumaroyl)-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (*C1), Kaempferol (*C1), Quercetin (*C1), Kaempferol 3-O-(2",4" di-E-p-coumaroyl)-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (*C1), Kaempferol 3-O-(3",4" di-E-p-coumaroyl)-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (*C1), Kaempferol 3-O-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (*C1), Quercetin 3-O-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (*C1), Kaempferol 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (*C1), Quercetin 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (*C1) Coumarins Surangin C (*C2), Surangin A (*C3), Surangin B (*C3) | ||||
| Medical system | Ayurveda (Traditional Indian medicine) | ||||
| Traditional usage | 1. Powder of Nagakesara (Mammea suriga) is an excellent drug for checking haemorrhage/hemorrhage. 2. One suffering from hiccough should take Nagakesara mixed with sugar and honey along with juice of sugarcane and Madhuka (liquorice). 3. Nagakesara should be taken with buttermilk for three days keeping on diet of butter in order to check leucorrhoea/leucorrhea. 4. Powder of Nagakesara and areca nut is an excellent formulation to help conception. 5. Woman taking fine powder of Nagakesara with cow's ghee during the season keeping on milk diet conceives. 6. By regular use of butter, Nagakesara and sugar is good for bleeding haemorrhoids/hemorrhoids. | ||||
| Related drugs | 1. Mesua ferrea L. (Anthers) 2. Cinnamomum tamala T.Nees & Eberm. (Fruits) 3. Dillenia pentagyna Roxb. (Fruits) | ||||
| Comments | According to P.V. Sharma this is used as a substitute for Naga kesara. | ||||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants, 1956. Chopra, R.N., Nayar, S.L. and Chopra, I.C., Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi. - New Edition (1996) National Institute Science Communication; Supplement p 178. Illustrated Manual of Herbal Drugs Used in Ayurveda, 1996. Sarin, Y.K., Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi p 190. Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay p 1063. Dravyagunavijnana, Vols. 1-5, reprint 1998. Sharma, P.V., Chowkhambha Bharati Academy, Varanasi Vol. 5, p171. | |||
| Research paper | *C1 Rao, L. J. M., Yada, H., Ono, H. and Yoshida, M., J. Agric. Food Chem., 50, 3143-46 (2002). *C2 Mahandru, M. M. and Ravindran, V. K., Phytochemistry, 25, 555-56 (1986). *C3 Joshi, B. S., Kamat, V. N., Govindachari, T. R. and Ganguly, A. K., Tetrahedron, 25, 1453-58 (1969). *C4 Shankaracharya, N. B., Nagalakshmi, S., Naik, J. P., Rao, L. J. R., PAFAI Journal, 17, 9-14 (1995). | ||||
| Remarks | The original botanical source of the Ayurvedic drug Nagakesara is the stamens of Mesua ferrea L., but a number of other materials are used as substitutes for the original. | ||||
| Last renewal date | 2023/12/13 | ||||
