Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | Avariya root |
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| Formal name | Nilini | |
| English name | Indian Indigo | |
| Original plant name | Indigofera tinctoria Linn., Indian Indigo | |
| Family name | Leguminosae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | root |
| Collection information | Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Colombo , Ayurveda Cooperation | |
| Collection date | 1983/02/ | |
| TMPW No. | 1535 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Ayurvedic name or Sanskrit name, English name | Nilini (Root), Indian Indigo | ||
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| Original plant name | Indigofera tinctoria Linn. | |||
| Family name | Leguminosae | |||
| Used part | Root, Whole plant | |||
| Distribution area | Indigenous to Senegal and parts of West tropical Africa and widely cultivated in India, Ceylon and some of the Philippine islands. It is rather common in Ceylon as a roadside weed specially in the dry regions of the low country. | |||
| Common uses | The plant is used for rheumatic complaints, cardiac, renal and hepatic dropsy, urinary diseases, giddiness, abdominal enlargement, intestinal obstruction, bronchial and eye diseases. An infusion of the root is an antidote for arsenic poisoning. An ointment prepared from it is applied on sores, chronic ulcers and haemorrhoids/hemorrhoids. Nilini is considered as a reputed drug for the promotion of hair growth. Due to the antitoxic property, it is also a good remedy against all poisonous affections. Root is useful in bladder stones and epilepsy. In Tanganyika, the root is used as a syphilitic remedy, for lithiasis, gonorrhoea/gonorrhea and as an anthelmintic. | |||
| Pharmacological effect | The plant exhibits potential contraceptive activity. The plant shows hypoglycaemic activity in experimental animals. | |||
| 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. 3 (Repr.1996), p 210. Ayurvedic Drugs and Their Plant Sources, 1994. Sivarajan, V.V. and Balachandran, I., Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi p 327. Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay p 681. 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. 3, p 217. | ||
| Last renewal date | 2024/01/12 | |||
