Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | Waduru me eta |
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| Formal name | Kapikacchu | |
Other names Tips！ | Wanduru-me, Achariapalu (Sin), Alkushi (B), Goncha (H), Naasuganni (K), Naikkorana (M), Pilliadugu (Te), Punaikkali (Ta) | |
| English name | Cowhage | |
| Original plant name | Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC., Cowhage | |
| Family name | Leguminosae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | seed |
| Collection information | Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura , Anuradhapura Aushadhalaya | |
| Collection date | 1980/01/25 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba, et al. | |
| TMPW No. | 6339 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Ayurvedic name or Sanskrit name, English name | Kapikacchu, Cowhage | ||||
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| Original plant name | Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. | |||||
| Family name | Leguminosae | |||||
| Used part | Seeds | |||||
| Distribution area | Occurs in India, Burma, Ceylon and East Indies. It is rather common in Ceylon, in the dry and intermediate regions. | |||||
| Common uses | The drug is anthelmintic, diuretic, laxative, aphrodisiac and a nervine tonic. It is useful in impotence, leucorrhoea/leucorrhea, spermatorrhoea/spermatorrhea, urinary troubles, gonorrhea, delirium, cholera, malignant ulcers and in expelling round worms. Seeds are boiled in cow's milk, decorticated, fried in cow ghee and made into a confection. Seed applied as a paste on scorpion stings is supposed to absorb the poison. Seeds along with bee honey increase sexual power. A paste of the seeds is applied on the body in dropsy. The hair of the fruit is a mechanical anthelmintic for expulsion of round worms. Usage of this is dangerous as an overdose kills the patient. An infusion of the hair is used in diseases of liver and gall bladder. It is prophylactic against oligospermia, useful in increasing sperm count, ovulation in women etc. It prevents male and female sterility and acts as a nervine tonic. | |||||
| Pharmacological effect | When tested on frogs, prurieninine slows down the heart, dilates the blood vessels, depresses blood pressure and increases the peristaltic action of intestines, prurienidine has also similar effect on blood vessels but has no action on heart. Seeds possess slight insecticidal activity. Seed diet produced hypoglycemic effect in normal rats, however, such a diet had insignificant effect on alloxan-treated 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. 4 (Repr.1997), p 68. 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 223. | ||||
| Last renewal date | 2023/12/21 | |||||
