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Crude drug name	Market name	Naichafru (Sadachondan)
	Urudu name	Sandal sufaid
	Arabic name / Persian name	Sandal-abiyaz / Sandal sufaid
	English name	White Sandalwood
Original plant name		Santalum album Linn., White Sandalwood
Family name		Santalaceae
Used part	Classification	Plant origin
Used part	Sub classification	heart wood
Collection information		People's Republic of Bangladesh, Bandarban District
Collection date		1964/3/18
Collector		Tsuneo Namba
Identifier		Javed Ahmad
Description		Features: The material also occurs in cylindrical pieces of heartwood. The present material is in the form of saw-dust or wood shavings. The heartwood is very homogenous, rather hard, ponderous, pale reddish with darker reddish brown and bright yellow concentric zones, it does not sink in water. Odour - characteristic and persistent; taste - sweetish. The sapwood is scentless, whereas the heartwood possessed persistent odour of sandal oil.
TMPW No.		9281

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Collection information

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Scientific information data base

Crude drug name

Urudu name,
English name

Sandal sufaid, White Sandalwood

Arabic name / Persian name

Sandal-abiyaz / Sandal sufaid

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Original plant name

Santalum album Linn.

Family name

Santalaceae

Used part

Heartwood (powder)

Distribution area

A tree commonly occurring in dry regions of Peninsular Indian from Vindhya mountains southwards, especially in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Function and properties

Head, Chest, Alimentary organs, Fever.

Exhilarant, cooling, sedative, antiseptic, diuretic, stimulant and astringent.
Oil is also antiseptic.

Specific actions

Cooling and tonic for the vital organs, disinfectant for the respiratory and urogenital organs.

Frequency in use

Common.

Common uses

Head: Sandal is useful in headache.

Chest: Its oral intake or paint is useful in palpitation caused by fevers. It is good in the weakness of the heart.

Alimentary organs: It is beneficial in 'weakness of hot stomach' both with its local application or oral use. It strengthens the stomach and intestines. It purifies the blood. It causes constipation.

Fever: Sandalwood (white variety) is useful in hot fevers.

Side effect

It causes constipation. It reduces sexual power in males if used for prolonged duration in large doses.

Medical system

Unani

Traditional concept

Temperament

It is cold in the third and dry in the second degree.
The trees are found from Mysore to Madras in S. India. It is reported that the trees are cultivated for the heartwood. The heartwood is very fragrant and is sold in bazaars as "Sandal".

Drug effect

Tonic to stomach, liver and heart.

Dosage

5 o 7gm.

Substitute

Kafur (Cinnamomum camphora Nees & Eberm.), camphor or Chharela (Parmelia perlata Esch.), lichens.

Related drugs

Pterocarpus santalinus Linn. of family - Fabaceae. It is known as Red Sandalwood.

Corrigent (corrective)

Honey.

Important compound preparations

Khamira Abresham and Dawul Misk Mo`tadil Sada.

References

Reference book　

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Illustrated Manual of Herbal Drugs Used in Ayurveda, 1996. Sarin, Y.K., Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi
p 130.

Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay
Vol. 1, pp 1098-1102.

Avicenna's Tract on Cardiac Drugs and Essays on Arab Cardiotherapy, 1983. Hameed, H. A. Hamdard Foundation Press, Karachi.
p 53.

Makhzanul-Mufradat (Khawasul Adviyah), Hakeem Kabiruddin, Daftar Al-Masih, Qarol Bagh, Delhi.
pp 396-397.

A Survey of Drugs, 1961 (2nd edi.). Wahid, A. K. and Siddiqui, H. H. Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, Delhi.
pp 19-30.

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 204.

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 300-301.

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. 3, pp 193-194.

Hamdard Pharmcopoeia of Eastern medicine, 1969. Said, H. M. (editor), The Times Press, Sadar Karachi.
pp 130-131.

Indusyunic Medicine, 1997. Usmanghani, K., Saeed, A. and Alam, M. T. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi.
pp 390-391.

Unani Adwiyah Mufradah, 1984. Ali, Saifuddin, A. (3rd edi.). Taraqi-e-Urdu Bureau, R. K. Puram, New Delhi.
p 200.

Remarks

Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Kabiruddin have described white and red sandalwoods together. According to them it has some kinds.
Saifuddin has described both the drugs separately.
According to Avicenna (Ibn Sina) sandal has the property of exhilarating and strengthening the heart, and is helped by its fragrance, astringency and rarefying power.

Sandalwood oil is largely used in perfumery creatives and also finds extensive use in soaps, face creams, toilet powders and attars. The oil is used in Unani medicine for cooling, diaphoretic, diuretic and expectorant properties. Oil has disinfective action on the mucous membranes of the genito-urinary and bronchial tracts. Antiseptic, antifungal and antibacterial activities in Sandalwood oil have also been reported.

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2024/03/12

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