Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | Paleswa |
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| Formal name | Padma | |
Other names Tips！ | Kamalgatta, Chapni (T), Kombol, Padma (B), Kanwal, Kamal (H), Kamala (K), Tamara (M), Tamara, Erratamara (Te), Ambal, Tamarai (Ta), Kamal, Rato kamal, Rato thulo kamal (N), Nelun, Tamburu (Sin) | |
| English name | Indian Lotus, Sacred Lotus | |
| Original plant name | Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn., Indian Lotus, Sacred Lotus | |
| Family name | Nymphaeaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | flower + leaf |
| Collection information | Kingdom of Nepal, Patan, Kathmandu / Shresta | |
| Collection date | 1991/04/27 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba, et al. | |
| TMPW No. | 15674 | |
Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Ayurvedic name or Sanskrit name, English name | Padmapatram | ||
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| Synonyms | Samvartika, Navadalam | |||
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| Original plant name | Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. | |||
| Family name | Nymphaeaceae | |||
| Used part | Leaves, Seeds, Tuber, Stalk, Whole plant, Stemens, Thalamus | |||
| Common uses | Lotus leaves are bitter, cooling and diuretic and are useful in burning sensation, hyperdipsia, fever, strangury, haemorrhoids/hemorrhoids and leprosy. Young leaves, petioles, and flowers are eaten as vegetables. The milky juice of leaf and flower stalks is used in diarrhoea/diarrhea. | |||
| Therapeutic uses | Daha (burning), Trt (thirst), Mutrakrcchra (urinary disorders), Raktapitta (bleeding disorders) | |||
| Pharmacological effect | Saline extracts from stem, leaves and flowers possess bacteriostatic action against gram positive and gram negative bacteria. Petroleum ether extract of lotus administered at a dose of 3 mg/kg. Body weight to female albino mice on alternate days for 15 days, exhibited significant anti fertility activity. | |||
| Medical system | Ayurveda (Traditional Indian medicine) | |||
| Traditional concept | Mala (Action on excretory mechanism) | Grahi (constipative) | ||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | [2] Indian Medicinal Plants - A Compendium of 500 species, Varier, P.S., Orient Longman Ltd. Chennai (Madras) Vol. 4 (Repr.1997), p 118. Plants in Ayurveda (A Compendium of Botanical and Sanskrit Names), 1997. Abdul Kareem, M., Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore 1161. | ||
| Last renewal date | 2023/12/21 | |||
