Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | Sa`taarfarsi |
|---|---|---|
| Urudu name | Sudab | |
| Arabic name / Persian name | Sudab bustani / Sudab | |
| English name | Garden Rue | |
| Original plant name | Ruta graveolens Linn. | |
| Family name | Rutaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | stem + leaf |
| Collection information | People's Republic of Bangladesh, Dacca [Dhaka] , Essa Bros. & Co. | |
| Collection date | 1964/3/6 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba | |
| Identifier | Javed Ahmad | |
| Description | The preserved sample has been identified as Ruta graveolens (Fam. - Rutaceae). A herb native to Mediterranean region; cultivated all over India. The real source of Sa‘atar is Zataria multiflora Boiss. (Fam. - Labiatae). It is found in Iran, Afghanistan, Arab and Baluchistan. | |
| TMPW No. | 9489 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Urudu name, English name | Sudab, Garden Rue | |||
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| Arabic name / Persian name | Sudab bustani / Sudab | ||||
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| Original plant name | Ruta graveolens Linn. | ||||
| Family name | Rutaceae | ||||
| Used part | Above ground parts | ||||
| Distribution area | Ruta graveolens is a herb, native to Mediterranean region; cultivated all over India. | ||||
| Description | The leaves are compound, similar with tamarind and leaflets round, odorous stinking and flowers yellowish in colour. The seeds are three and enclosed in an envelope. The leaves are mainly used as drug and are called Berge Sudab. The oil is also extracted from the whole plant of Sudab and is famous as Roghan Sudab (oil of Rue). It is also used in Unani medicine. There are three varieties: garden, wild and mountainous. | ||||
| Function and properties | Diluting, resolvent, deobstruent, diuretic, carminative, calorific, detersive, astringent and toxic in extra large doses. | ||||
| Specific actions | Resolvent, diuretic and emmenagogue. | ||||
| Frequency in use | Very common. | ||||
| Common uses | Head: It is useful in hysteria, infantile convulsions and pneumonia etc. Chest: Dried leaves burnt and fumigation is effective for catarrh and cough. It acts as expectorant and antispasmodic. It is used in the form of plaster in general dropsy and oedema. Stomach: It is used in the treatment of cold stomach states and as carminative it assists digestion. Thus it is useful for imparting strength to the digestive organs, acts as antiflatulent and appetite stimulant. Joints: Being calorific and resolvent of the cold malhumours useful for relieving sciatica, rheumatism and chronic pain in arthritis. Excretion: Being desiccative reduces quantity of the seminal fluid, leucorrhoeal/leucorreal discharge and other flows available freely in the body. It takes away the excessive cold malhumours through diuresis, thus produces some astringency and evacuates the cold matters from the requisite organs. In oral preparations and suppository effective as emmenagogue. | ||||
| Side effect | Large doses or prolonged use is considered harmful for eyesight and for causing headache. Generally acts as alexipharmic, prevents the body from toxicity produced due to insect, snake and scorpion bites. | ||||
| Medical system | Unani | ||||
| Traditional concept | Temperament | It is hot and dry in the second degree. Hot and dry in the third degree. | |||
| Drug effect | Resolvent, diuretic and emmenagogue. | ||||
| Dosage | 3 to 5gm. (approximately). | ||||
| Substitute | Sa`atar Farsi (Origanum vulgare Linn.) and Na` Na` (Mentha piperata Linn.). | ||||
| Corrigent (corrective) | Sikanjabeen (Citrus juice with sugar in water) and Anisun (Pimpinella anisum Linn.) | ||||
| Important compound preparations | Safuf Sailan ur-Rehm, Safuf Sa`lab, Jawarish Kamuni and Ma`jun Hilteet. | ||||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | Indian Medicinal Plants (Second Edition), Vols. 1-5, 1993. Kirtikar, K.R. and Basu. B.D., Periodical Experts Book Agency, Delhi Vol. 1, pp 453-455. Makhzanul-Mufradat (Khawasul Adviyah), Hakeem Kabiruddin, Daftar Al-Masih, Qarol Bagh, Delhi. pp 336-337. A Survey of Drugs, 1961 (2nd edi.). Wahid, A. K. and Siddiqui, H. H. Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, Delhi. pp 55-58. 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 200. 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 254-255. Indusyunic Medicine, 1997. Usmanghani, K., Saeed, A. and Alam, M. T. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi. pp 385-387. Unani Adwiyah Mufradah, 1984. Ali, Saifuddin, A. (3rd edi.). Taraqi-e-Urdu Bureau, R. K. Puram, New Delhi. pp 182-183. | |||
| Remarks | It is in the list of vegetable drugs used exclusively in Unani medicine. The drug is described by Arab and Indian physicians. Peganum hermala Linn. (Harmal), Fam. Rutaceae is known as Syrian Rue. Common rue counters all poisons. Excessive use of wild rue is however, fatal. | ||||
| Last renewal date | 2024/03/13 | ||||
