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Small Wood Rose

 

 

BOTANICAL NAME:

  • Argyrecia speciosa Sweet

FAMILY:

  • Convolvulaceae                

SYNONYM(S):

  • Lettsomia nervosa roxb
  • Argyrecia nervosa bojer

URDU NAME:

  • Samandarsotha

REGIONAL NAME:                  

  • Bengali: Bichtarak
  • Hindi: Samandarkapat, Samandarsokh
  • Sanskrit: Samudrapatra, Samudrasosha
  • Sindhi: Sam, Udrapolaka, Kantro
  • Pashto: Goamlay

UNANI/TIBBI NAME:

  • Samandar sokh

ENGLISH NAME:

  • The elephant creeper
  • Small wood rose
  • Silver morning glory

HABITAT:

  • Cultivated as an ornamental plant in Sindh and Multan

DESCRIPTION:

  • Stem a very large climber with stout & white tomentose
  • Leaves are cordate, acute, glamorous about 18-30cm long
  • Flowers are rose purple and glabrous present in subcapitate cymes
  • Peduncles long, stout, white-tomentose, bracts large ovate-lanceolate
  • Pedicels short, white tomentose
  • Sepals ovate to broadly ovate
  • Fruit 2 cm long subgloboseapiculate
  • Seed dark to light brown, glabrous

PART USED:

  • Leaves, Root and Seeds

TASTE:

  • Seed: Tasteless
  • Root: Bitter

TEMPERAMENT:

  •  Cold 2°, Moist 1°

PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE:

  • Plant flowers from April to September
  • Fruits mature by January.

PROCEDURE & TIME OF COLLECTION:

  • Seeds are collected from mature and dry fruits.

CONSTITUENTS:

  • Tannins
  • Resin acid
  • Fatty oil

SUBSTITUTES:

  • Tal-makhana/asteracathe

(Asteracantha longifolia nees syn. Hygrophila spinosa T.anders)

  • Tukhum sarwali/ (celosia argentea linn)

ACTIONS AND USES IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:

Pharmacological action:

  • Roots: Alterative Tonic
  • Leaves: Maturative, Absorptive, Rubefacient Antiphlogistic.
  • Seeds: Diuretic, Aphbnrodisiac, Sedative

Therapeutic uses:

  • Roots: used in rheumatism, disease of nervous system, synovitis and syphilis
  • Leaves: as emollient poultices for wounds and in skin diseases
  • Seeds: powdered seeds are used in diseases of the urinary tract.              Hypotensive and spasmolytic activity 

DOSES:

  • 3-5 gm

CORRECTIVES:

  • Honey, Sugar and Milk

IMPORTANT UNANI FORMULATIONS:

  • Hab Nashat, Hab Asgand

ASTROLOGY:

            Nil
By Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences