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Shoe Flower

Description: Hibiscus_rosa-sinensis   Description: hibiscus_index

BOTANICAL NAME:

  • Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

FAMILY:

  • Malvaceae

SYNONYM(S):

  • Nill

URDU NAME:

  • Gurhal

REGIONAL NAME:

  • Bengali: Jiwa, Joba Juwa
  • Persian: Angharee
  • Pashto: Gurhal
  • Sanskrit: Joba
  • Sindhi: Rooh-e-Dhan, Gohrawal
  • Arabic: Anghara
  • Chinese: Ch’uan Chin,  Fu Sang
  • Hindi: Jasum, Jasut, Gurhal

UNANI/TIBBI NAME:

  • Gurhal, Gudhal

ENGLISH NAME:

  • Shoe flower, China rose, Chinese hibiscus

HABITAT:

  • Found throughout the Pakistan, grown as a garden & ornamental plant.

DESCRIPTION:

  • An evergreen 2-3 m shrub having stem without pickles
  • Short petioles ovate leaves
  • Inflorescence Pedicles long, corolla tubular, petals bright-red, staminal tube extending far beyond the petals.

PART USED:

  • Flowers

TASTE:

  • Tasteless and Mucilaginous

TEMPERAMENT:

  • Moderate cold 1°, moist 1°

PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE:

  • Flowers from April to September

PROCEDURE & TIME OF COLLECTION:

  • Flowers are collected during the flowering period and dried.

CONSTITUENTS:

  • Mucilage
  • Hibiscin
  • Thiamine
  • Riboflavin
  • Niacin
  • Vitamin c
  • Iron
  • Cyanide

SUBSTITUTES:

  • Baad Mushk/Mushk Willow (salix caprea linn)

ACTIONS AND USES IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:

Pharmacological action:

  • Cardiac stimulant
  • Sedative
  • Thirst quencher
  • Demulcent
  • Emollient
  • Emmenagogue
  • Refrigerant
  • Aphrodisiac

Therapeutic uses:

  • The mucilaginous infusion prepared from petals is given in fever as a refrigerant and demulscent in cough, in cystitis, strangury and other irritable conditions of the genitor urinary tract.

DOSES:

  • 5-7 g

CORRECTIVES:

  • Misri/sugar
  • Filfil siah/black pepper (piper nigrum)

IMPORTANT UNANI FORMULATIONS:

  • Sharbat-e- Gurhal

ASTROLOGY:

  • Moon

 
By Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences