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Crude drug name | Market name | Musli-siyah |
|---|---|---|
| Urudu name | Musli-siyah | |
| Arabic name / Persian name | Musli aswad / Musli-siyah, Mosali | |
| English name | Black Musale | |
| Original plant name | Curculigo orchioides Gaertn., Black Musale | |
| Family name | Hypoxidaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | root |
| Collection information | Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Karachi [Karachi], Sind , Amjad Unani Medicine (Pvt.) Ltd.Amjad Unani Medicine (Pvt.) Ltd. | |
| Collection date | 1994/1/22 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba | |
| Identifier | Javed Ahmad | |
| Description | Features: Transversely sliced pieces of tuberous root upto 2cm in diameter; surface slightly shrivelled with remnants of thin wiry roots, having a dark ash or black colour. The cut surface is brown in colour and shows a cork layer with minute lycegenous cavities and a broad central strand lined with dark coloured collateral bundles. Fracture - short and powdery; odour - faint; taste - slightly bitter and mucilaginous. | |
| TMPW No. | 14562 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Urudu name, English name | Musli-siyah, Black Musale | |||
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| Arabic name / Persian name | Musli aswad / Musli-siyah, Mosali | ||||
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| Original plant name | Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. | ||||
| Family name | Hypoxidaceae | ||||
| Used part | Roots (cut pieces) | ||||
| Distribution area | A perennial herb, distributed in the sub-tropical Himalayas, Khasi Hills and southwards to Peninsular India. | ||||
| Description | It is of two kinds e.g. black and white. Black musale is transversely sliced and is sold in the Indian Bazaars. Having black colour externally and dirty white internally. Odour - aloe type; taste - insipid but mucilaginous. | ||||
| Function and properties | Excretion. Aromatic, tonic, demulcent, aphrodisiac, viscous, diuretic, restorative, alterative, fattening, useful in leucorrhoea/leucorrhea and other menstrual derangements. | ||||
| Specific actions | Tonic, demulcent, alterative, viscous and aphrodisiac. | ||||
| Frequency in use | Common. | ||||
| Common uses | The tuberous roots of black musale given as powder with sugar and milk in the form of thick mucilage act as demulcent, alterative, fattening, tonic particularly in leucorrhoea/leucorrhea, in seminal weakness (due to nocturnal pollution or premature ejaculation and spermatorrhoea/spermatorrhea) and in convalscence after acute illness. Roots form an ingredient of several compound formulations prescribed as aphrodisiac and tonic. It helps formation of semen and rendering it more viscous. With diuretics and gums given in milk for treating leucorrhoea/leucorrhea, menorrhagia, dysuria and gonorrhoea/gonorrhea. | ||||
| Side effect | Large doses or extensive use may cause resistance in digestive process and may abnormally increase viscosity of humours. | ||||
| Medical system | Unani | ||||
| Traditional concept | Temperament | Hot and dry in the second degree. Hot in first and dry in the second degree with moistness (Kabiruddin). | |||
| Drug effect | Aphrodisiac and increases the viscosity of semen. | ||||
| Dosage | 5 to 7gm. | ||||
| Substitute | S`a lab misri (Orchis mascula Linn.). | ||||
| Corrigent (corrective) | Black and white musales are correctives for each other. | ||||
| Important compound preparations | Safuf Sailanur Rehm and Ma`jun Mochras. | ||||
| 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 pp 18, 84. 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 104. Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay Vol. 1, pp 411-412. Makhzanul-Mufradat (Khawasul Adviyah), Hakeem Kabiruddin, Daftar Al-Masih, Qarol Bagh, Delhi. p 555. 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 62. Hamdard Pharmcopoeia of Eastern medicine, 1969. Said, H. M. (editor), The Times Press, Sadar Karachi. p 288. Indusyunic Medicine, 1997. Usmanghani, K., Saeed, A. and Alam, M. T. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi. pp 196-197. | |||
| Remarks | Kabiruddin has described both white and black musales together under the head musli. Both types (white and black) have similar actions and properties. Here in the present document only black musale is described. The white musale and its kinds will be described later on. Curculigo orchioides is the Kali musli (black musale) of the bazaar and has to be distinguished from the tuberous roots of Asparagus adscendens Roxb. which goes by the name of Safaid musli (white musale). Murdannia nudiflora (L.) Brenan, Murdannia scapiflora Linn. have also been referred as Musli siyah (Kabiruddin). Aneilema scapiflorum Wight (Fam. Commelinaceae) has also been mentioned as Kali musli (black musale) by Chopra et. al., 1956. | ||||
| Last renewal date | 2022/06/08 | ||||
