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Mint
BOTANICAL NAME:
FAMILY:
SYNONYM(S):
URDU NAME:
REGIONAL NAME:
- Bengali: Podina
- Persian: Pudinah
- Sanskrit: Pudina
- Sindhi: Phuczriah
- Arabic: Naanai
- Punjabi: Pudinah
- Chinese: Po Ho
- Hindi: Pudinah, Pudina
UNANI/TIBBI NAME:
ENGLISH NAME:
- Mint, Marsh Mint, Corn Mint
HABITAT:
- Azad Kashmir, NWFP, Baluchistan, Punjab
DESCRIPTION:
- An erect, slender, hairy or glabrous fragrant perennial herb, 15-30 cm high.
- Leaves are roundly ovate, acute or sub obtuse, toothed & hairy
- Shortly petioled or sessile.
- Flowers ellipsoid slightly keeled, pale yellow
PART USED:
- Leaves, flowering tops and stems
TASTE:
- Aromatic, somewhat bitter
TEMPERAMENT:
PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE:
- Propagated from January to February
PROCEDURE & TIME OF COLLECTION:
- Can be harvested thrice a year in June, September and November
CONSTITUENTS:
- Essential oil
- Stearoptin
- Menthol
- Camphor
- D-cavone
- Carvene
- D-sylvestrine
- Citronollol
SUBSTITUTES:
- Gandana/Shallot (allium ascalonicum)
ACTIONS AND USES IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:
Pharmacological action:
- Aromatic
- Carminative
- Stimulant
- Antispasmodic
- Stomachic
- Emmenagogue
- Refrigerant
- Diuretic
Therapeutic uses:
- It is useful in diseases of the liver and spleen, joint pains,
- Jaundice, asthma, and in vomiting
DOSES:
CORRECTIVES:
- Kateera/tragacanth (stercula urens)
IMPORTANT UNANI FORMULATIONS:
- Majun nankhwah
- Majun fotinji
- Majun sangdana murgh
- Majun khaddar
- Majun baladur
- Lubub kabir
- Laooq motadil
- Qurs podina
- Arq hazim
- Arq podina
- Zimad ushuq
- Sikanjbin nana
- Safuf nana
- Ruh-e- podina
ASTROLOGY:
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