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Bee Plant

 

 

BOTANICAL NAME:

  • Borago officinalis

FAMILY:

  • Boraginaceae                                     

SYNONYM(S):

  • Onosma Bracteatum wall

URDU NAME:

  • Gaozaban  

REGIONAL NAME:                  

  • Bengali: Gaozaban
  • Arabic: Taharatul Sanulshur, Lasanulaaur
  • Persian: Gaozaban
  • Hindi: Gojihva
  • Pashto: Gaozaban
  • Kashmiri: Kazabun

UNANI/TIBBI NAME:

  • Lisan-al-saur

ENGLISH NAME:

  • Borage
  • Beebread
  • Bee plant

HABITAT:

  • Baluchistan, Quetta, Naraikotal, N.W.F.P.

DESCRIPTION:

  • Plant 30-60 cm high hispid annual or biennial, erect plant.it is mainly cultivated but also grows wildly on wasteland
  • Flowers blue or purple, trumpet shaped are symmetrical and grows in loose forked cymes at interval on the stem
  • Calyx consist of five separate, green linear lanceolate sepals
  • Corolla is star shaped and composed of five blue petals which are ovate lanceolate in shape, 10-15 cm in length and 5-8 cm wide with an obtuse apex and crenate margin
  • Upper leaves are sessile or shortly stalked and silky white beneath
  • Lower leaves exhibit a decurrent petiole, have a darjgreen upper surface with a grayish green lower surface
  • Nut let ovoid rough 4mm and acute

PART USED:

  • Dried leaves and flowers

TASTE:

  • Leaves: cucumber like, acrid
  • Flower: tasteless

TEMPERAMENT:

  • Hot 1°, moist 1°

PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE:

  • This plant occurs during November to January

PROCEDURE & TIME OF COLLECTION:

  • Plants are uprooted, washed and flowers separate .These is then dried under shades. Leaves are removed from the dried plants

CONSTITUENTS:

Leaves:

  • Acetic, lactic, and malic acid
  • Alkaloid
  • Mucilage
  • Pentose
  • Resin
  • Cynogenic material
  • Vitamin c
  • KNO3
  • Calcium oxalate

Flowers:

  • Carbohydrates
  • Proteins
  • Tannins
  • Ca2+, Fe2+, Mg2+, K+, and Na+

SUBSTITUTES:

  • Gul-e-surkh/rose (Rosa damascene mill.)
  • Badranjnoya/mountain balm (Melissa parviflora benth)
  • Kasni/chicory, succory (cichorium intybus linn)
  • Balchhad/calerian (nardostachys jatamansi)

ACTIONS AND USES IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:

Pharmacological action:

  • Expectorant, Demulcent, Diaphoretic, Cardiac Tonic, Refrigerant, Alterative, Diuretic, Emollient, Febrifuge, Laxative

Therapeutic uses:

  • Relieves restless in fever, functional palpitation of heart, irritation of bladder and stomach, in bronchial asthma, jaundice, dry cough, cold, catarrh, rheumatism, syphilis, leprosy and urogenital ailments

DOSES:

  • Leaves: 4-6 gm
  • Flowers: 5-7 gm

CORRECTIVES:

  • Sandal sufaid/ sandalwood(santalum album linn )
  • Murabba halela (terminalia chebula rtz.)
  • Sumaq/sumach (rhus coriaria)         

IMPORTANT UNANI FORMULATIONS:

  • Khameera abresham sada
  • Arq-e-gaozaban
  • Khameera gaozaban
  • Ambari jadwar
  • Ood salibwala

ASTROLOGY:

  • Moon