Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | Berm Dandi |
|---|---|---|
| Urudu name | Barhamdandi | |
| Arabic name / Persian name | - / - | |
| English name | Thistle herb | |
| Original plant name | Tricholepis glaberrima DC., Thistle herb | |
| Family name | Compositae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | aerial part |
| Collection information | People's Republic of Bangladesh, Dacca [Dhaka] , Essa Bros. & Co. | |
| Collection date | 1964/3/6 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba | |
| Identifier | Javed Ahmad | |
| Description | Features: Quite glabrous, stem erect, slender as well as the branches angled and ribbed. Leaves sessile, 2.5-6.3 by 3-6mm, linear - oblong or lanceolate, acute, entire, spinous-toothed or spinous-serrate, punctate; midrib and nerves very prominent beneath. Heads 6-8mm long, ovoid, glabrous. Corolla purple. Involucral bracts linear - lanceolate. Pappus shorter than the achenes. Achenes oblong, faintly ribbed. The herb consists of the above ground parts. | |
| TMPW No. | 9575 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Urudu name, English name | Barhamdandi, Thistle herb | ||
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| Arabic name / Persian name | - / - | |||
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| Original plant name | Tricholepis glaberrima DC. | |||
| Family name | Compositae | |||
| Used part | Above ground parts | |||
| Distribution area | W. Rajputana, Mt. Abu, Madhya Pradesh, W. Ghats in the Bombay State and the hills of Mysore (India). | |||
| Description | It resembles Camel's Thistle. The height of the plant is about half meter. The branches are thin and greenish white in colour. The flower is bluish red in colour and consists spines around it. The spines are narrow and delicate. All parts of the plant are bitter. | |||
| Function and properties | Skin diseases, Body tonic. Restorative for intellect, tonic for body and brain, blood purifier, antipyretic for chronic fevers, nervine tonic, alterative, diuretic and aphrodisiac. | |||
| Specific actions | Blood purifier, alterative, and nervine tonic. | |||
| Frequency in use | Common. | |||
| Common uses | Powder of the drug with cow milk is effective as body tonic, for improving the intellect. It is also useful in seminal debility, impotency, hysteria, dyspepsia and chronic persistent fevers. As blood purifier included in infusion and also bruised with black pepper and given as alternative in scabies, pustules, pimples and boils and in skin disorders appear due to blood ailments. | |||
| Side effect | It produces dryness. Excessive use may cause loss of water in the body. | |||
| Medical system | Unani | |||
| Traditional concept | Temperament | It is hot and dry in the third degree. | ||
| Drug effect | It is a good blood purifier. | |||
| Dosage | Dried 5 to 7 gm and fresh upto 12 gm (approximately). | |||
| Substitute | Mundi (Sphaeranthus indicus Linn.) and Nilkanthi (Chrozophora prostrata Datz). | |||
| Related drugs | Echinops echinatus Roxb. | |||
| Corrigent (corrective) | Honey. | |||
| Important compound preparations | Habb-i-Musaffi Khun. | |||
| 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 247. Indian Medicinal Plants (Second Edition), Vols. 1-5, 1993. Kirtikar, K.R. and Basu. B.D., Periodical Experts Book Agency, Delhi Vol. 2, p 1425. Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay Vol. 1, p 1234. Makhzanul-Mufradat (Khawasul Adviyah), Hakeem Kabiruddin, Daftar Al-Masih, Qarol Bagh, Delhi. pp 125-126. 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 233. Hamdard Pharmcopoeia of Eastern medicine, 1969. Said, H. M. (editor), The Times Press, Sadar Karachi. p 111. Indusyunic Medicine, 1997. Usmanghani, K., Saeed, A. and Alam, M. T. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi. pp 215-216. | ||
| Remarks | It is a controversial Ayurvedic drug. Usmanghani and Aftab (1997) have described this drug under different botanical name Echinops echinatus Roxb. (Fam. Asteraceae). It is an addition by Unani physicians in their Materia Medica. The plant mentioned by Usmanghani and Aftab (1997) may not be the correct source of Ayurvedic drug - Barham-Dandi. It is a different plant which is found wild in India and is used under different drug - Oont katara (Camel's Thistle). Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Ibn al-Baytar have not mentioned this drug. | |||
| Last renewal date | 2024/02/22 | |||
