Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | Badam |
|---|---|---|
| Urudu name | Badam | |
| Arabic name / Persian name | Lauz al-halud / Badam-sherein | |
| English name | Almond | |
| Original plant name | Prunus amygdalis Batsch, Almond | |
| Family name | Rosaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | seed |
| Collection information | Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Karachi [Karachi], Sind , Amjad Unani Medicine (Pvt.) Ltd. | |
| Collection date | 1994/1/22 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba | |
| Identifier | Javed Ahmad | |
| TMPW No. | 14455 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Urudu name, English name | Badam, Almond | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic name / Persian name | Lauz al-halud / Badam-sherein | |||
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| Original plant name | Prunus amygdalis Batsch | |||
| Family name | Rosaceae | |||
| Used part | Seeds | |||
| Distribution area | A tree, native of the E. Mediterranean region but cultivated chiefly in Himachal Pradesh and Kashmir for edible seeds. It is also found in Pakistan and Afghanistan. | |||
| Function and properties | Cosmetics, Head, Respiratory organs, Eye, Food, Excretion. Nutritive, nervine tonic, semenagogue (increase formation of semen), aphrodisiac, aperient, emollient. All kinds of almonds are detergent, purifying and deobstruent. | |||
| Specific actions | Nutritive, nervine tonic and emollient. | |||
| Frequency in use | Common. | |||
| Common uses | Cosmetics: The use of sweet almond fattens the body. The oil is detersive and is included in embrocation to beautify the face. Head: It is nutritive and tonic against mental exhaustion and fatigue. Respiratory organs: It keeps moist thus relieves dryness and affiliated complaints. Produces softness in throat and chest and thus assists expectoration of phlegm. Also useful for dry cough. It is a useful (sex) stimulant and aphrodisiac and is included in electuaries prescribed for increase formation of semen. Eye. Almond improves the eyesight. Food. Almond removes the hepatic and splenic obstructions. The bitter variety is particularly useful for removing obstructions found in the peripheral vessels. The oil of sweet almond is also useful against constipation. Excretion: Bitter almond removes nephrolith. Oil of bitter almond, especially when taken orally with blue lily, cleanses kidney and bladder and removes the calculi found therein. It is also useful in uteralgia, hot inflammation and hardness of the uterus, hysteria, dysuria and naphralgia. Its pessary elicits an emmenagogue action. Sweet almond is useful in colic due to its detergent property. The bitter almond is more useful in this respect. | |||
| Side effect | It is slow to digest but good in nutritive value. However, if taken with sugar it is quickly digested. Its flow is heavy and stirs up yellow bile due to its sweetness. It may affect the digestive function. Almond is useful in cases of bite by a mad dog. | |||
| Medical system | Unani | |||
| Traditional concept | Temperament | It is hot and moist (sweet almond) in the first degree, while bitter variety is hot and dry in the second degree. | ||
| Drug effect | Tonic to brain but slow to digest. | |||
| Comments | Burnt shell of the almonds is regarded as a traditionally esteemed tooth powder. It makes the teeth clean and bright. | |||
| Dosage | Kernel 7 (pieces) to 11 (pieces). Oil 3 to 12 gm. | |||
| Substitute | Maghz Akhrot (Juglans regia Linn.), kernel. | |||
| Corrigent (corrective) | Mastagi (Pistacia lentiscus Linn.) and oil of Lagenaria sps. (white gourd). | |||
| Important compound preparations | Laooq Badam and Laooq Sapistan. | |||
| 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 204. Makhzanul-Mufradat (Khawasul Adviyah), Hakeem Kabiruddin, Daftar Al-Masih, Qarol Bagh, Delhi. pp 109-111. A Survey of Drugs, 1961 (2nd edi.). Wahid, A. K. and Siddiqui, H. H. Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, Delhi. pp 98, 164. Dictionary of Economic Plants in India, 1996 (2nd Rep.). Singh, U; Wadhwani, A. M. and Johri B.M. Indian council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. p 184. Al-Qanun Fil-Tibb. Avicenna. (English translation of the critical Arabic text), Book 2, 1998. Hameed, H. A. (editor), Dept. of Islamic Studies, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi. pp 420-421. Hamdard Pharmcopoeia of Eastern medicine, 1969. Said, H. M. (editor), The Times Press, Sadar Karachi. pp 246, 247. Indusyunic Medicine, 1997. Usmanghani, K., Saeed, A. and Alam, M. T. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi. pp 359-360. | ||
| Remarks | Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and other Unani physicians have described the properties of sweet and bitter almonds. Oil that is obtained from seeds of both sweet and bitter varieties is used in perfumery. | |||
| Last renewal date | 2024/02/22 | |||
