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Crude drug name | Market name | Imli |
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| Urudu name | Imli | |
| Arabic name / Persian name | Tamr hindi / Anbalah, Tamr hindi, Khurma-i-hindi | |
| English name | Tamarind | |
| Original plant name | Tamarindus indica Linn., Tamarind | |
| Family name | Caesalpiniaceae (Former Leguminosae) | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | fruit |
| 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 | |
| Description | Features: The fruit is a pendulous legume, oblong, linear - oblong, slightly compressed, curved or slightly straight, 8 to 20cm long, 2 to 3cm broad, fleshy, brown reddish in colour; seeds 3 to 12, dark reddish, shining, embedded in a fibrous mass of firm, fleshy pulp acidic and juicy. | |
| TMPW No. | 14560 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Urudu name, English name | Imli, Tamarind | ||
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| Arabic name / Persian name | Tamr hindi / Anbalah, Tamr hindi, Khurma-i-hindi | |||
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| Original plant name | Tamarindus indica Linn. | |||
| Family name | Caesalpiniaceae (Former Leguminosae) | |||
| Used part | Pulp / Seeds | |||
| Distribution area | A large handsome, evergreen tree, indigenous to tropical Africa and is now distributed throughout the plains and sub-Himalayan tracts of India; also grown as an avenue tree. Leaves pinnate. Flowers yellow stripped with red. Gujrat variety is much esteemed for medicinal preparations. | |||
| Description | The legumes are 4 to 5 inches in length and contain reddish black pulp. The seeds are stony and reddish in colour. Taste - pleasant, sweetish and acrid. The pulp and kernel are used as drug. The kernel is whitish in colour. | |||
| Function and properties | Food, Excretion, Fevers, Skin. Antibilious, febrifuge and purgative for phlegm, refrigerant and active against blood heat, carminative, digestive, antiscorbutic. Seeds are cooling, astringent, constipative, antibilious, antiemetic, retentive and desiccative for semen. | |||
| Specific actions | Antibilious, febrifuge and purgative of phlegm and digestive. It is a purgative drug. It is more attenuant and has lesser moisture than in Bukhara plums (Prunus domestica Linn.). Seed- desiccative for semen. | |||
| Frequency in use | Very common. | |||
| Common uses | Food: It is useful in vomiting and thirst in febrile states. It tones up the flabbiness of the stomach caused by excessive vomiting. It is refrigerant. It gives relief in nausea. Cardiac and stomach tonic, brings tranquillity in high-tension state of the individual. Acts as antiscorbutic, but a depressant of sexual function. Seeds are regarded as astringent and active against nocturnal pollution and spermatorrhoea/spermatorrhea. The kernels are considered good in the thinness of semen. It is used as a plaster to dissolve the various types of swellings. Roasted kernels become dry. Excretion: It purges out yellow bile. Fevers: It cures the fevers associated with syncope and pain, when laxity of the bowels is desired. Skin: In scabies and pruritis, after adding aloe and made into pills, administered to alleviate the situation, these pills are also effective against palpitation of bilious origin. Tamarind syrup is its famous preparation. It is prepared after adding in water and without mixing with fingers. Its cold infusion is utilized. | |||
| Side effect | It produces cough due to its cold faculty. It is sex depressant. The drug is used in scorpion sting. Continued use for long time in adult male is considered harmful for sexual function. Kernel produces constipation. | |||
| Medical system | Unani | |||
| Traditional concept | Temperament | It is cold and dry in the second degree / Cold and dry in the first degree (fruit pulp). According to Kabiruddin it is cold and dry in the third degree (kernel). | ||
| Drug effect | Febrifuge, antibilious and refrigerant. It is harmful for sexual function. The powder of the kernels is considered good in the thinness of semen. | |||
| Dosage | 25 to 50 gm. (syrup made into this quantity). 1 to 3 gm. (kernel). | |||
| Substitute | Alubukhara (Prunus domestica Linn.), fruit and Zarishk (Berberis vulgaris Linn.), true barberry for tranquillity. | |||
| Corrigent (corrective) | Table sugar and Unnab (Ziziphus sativa Gaertn. syn. Z. vulgaris Lamk.), fruit. | |||
| Important compound preparations | Jawarish Tamr Hindi and Sherbat Tamr Hindi. | |||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay Vol. 1, pp 1191-1193. Makhzanul-Mufradat (Khawasul Adviyah), Hakeem Kabiruddin, Daftar Al-Masih, Qarol Bagh, Delhi. pp 90-91. A Survey of Drugs, 1961 (2nd edi.). Wahid, A. K. and Siddiqui, H. H. Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, Delhi. pp 8-10. 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 124-125. Al-Jamili Mufradt Al Adwiya Wal Aghziya (1197-1248 A.D.). Ibn al-Baytar. Vols. 1-3, 1985-1999. Central council for Research in Unani Medicine, Janakpuri, New Delhi. Vol. 1, pp 350-351. Hamdard Pharmcopoeia of Eastern medicine, 1969. Said, H. M. (editor), The Times Press, Sadar Karachi. pp 81, 177. Indusyunic Medicine, 1997. Usmanghani, K., Saeed, A. and Alam, M. T. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi. pp 415-416. 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 224. | ||
| Remarks | This drug is described by Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Ibn al-Baytar and Kabiruddin. The drug otherwise, is very easily available and have no problem of adulteration. No controversy exists in the description of this drug in Unani literature. Old tamarind is easily discernible by its black appearance. | |||
| Last renewal date | 2024/02/27 | |||
