| Common Name/ Latin Name |
Parts Used |
Constituents |
Medicinal Uses |
Aloe [Aloe vera Tourn] |
Leaves. |
Gum,Resin,Anthraquinone,uronic acid,oxidase,catase &sugar |
Used in skin treatment and beauty therapy. |
Amaltas [Cassia fistula] |
Pods. |
Anthraquinone,Tannin |
Purgative |
Ashwagandha [Withania somnifera] |
Roots, leaves |
Alkoloid steroidal iron. |
Tonic sedative useful in hiccup cough, dropsy, rheumatism, senile debility, ulcer and scabies. |
Atis [Acontium heterophyllum] |
Root |
AcnoAlkaloid, astine, aconitic acid, tannic acid, starch fat. |
Tonic, astringent, antiperiodic and aphodisiac |
Bhringaraja [Eclipta Alba] |
Roots, leaves, whole herb |
Alkaloids, ecliptine |
Used in hepatic and spleen enlargment, used as liver tonic and also used for darkening hair |
Blue Gum [Eucalyptus globulus] |
Oils from leaves. |
Volatile oil, flavanoides, resins, tannins, Eucalyptol oil. |
Expectorant, stimulates blood flow also used in ointment for burns. |
Brahmi [Bacopa monnieri] |
Leaves |
Alkoloids, brahmine and herpestine and saponin. |
Improve intellect used for epilepsy, insanity, and nervous disease, |
Centella [Centella asiatica] |
Leaves, Roots. |
Glycoside,asiaticoside,essential fatty oil,sitosterol and tannin. |
For treating skin diseases, Secondary and tertiary syphilis, Eczema, Leprosy, Improve memory, youth, color of body. |
Chirata [Swerita Chirata] |
Whole plant |
Ophelic acid, chirantin bitter glucoside, resin, gum, carbonates and phospahtes. |
Bitter tonic, heart and liver and eyes. Febrifuge and anthelmintic. |
Cochin lemon grass [Cymbopogon flexuosus] |
Leaves and young stems |
Oil from lemon grass |
For treating rheumatic aches and pains, scabies and ringworm. |
Dudhi [Euphorbia hirta] |
Leaves and lates |
Euphoron, resin, gummalate of calcium, alkaloid, essential oil. |
Used as an ingredient of medicines for cough, asthama, sysentry and genito-urinary tract. |
Galagara [Eclipta alba Hassk] |
Root. |
Alkeloid ecliptine& Alkeloid nicotine |
As digestive aid, Anti-fungal and anti-bacterial. |
Gotu-kola [Hydrocotyle asiatic] |
Leaves |
Vellarin, resin, fatty aromatic body, gum, sugar, tannin, aluminous matter. |
Alterative tonic, diuretic and local stimulant. It sets up urinary and ovarain irritation. |
Guar-gum [Cyamopsis psoralloides] |
Dry seed flour |
Ether extracts, carbohydrates, protiens. |
Cosmetics, food preperation and textile industry. |
Guduchi [Cocculus cordifollus] |
Roots and leaves |
Contains starchy extract, bitter principal |
Bitter tonic, alternative aphrodisiac, hepatic, stimulant, also useful n jaundice, fever, torpidity of liver. |
Guggul [Commiphora mukul] |
Gum, resin |
Gum, resin acidic polysaccharides volatile oils. |
Antiseptic, increses W.B.C, bood purifier and carminative. |
Gur-mar [Gymnema Sylvestre] |
Leaves. |
Leaves contain gemnemic acid and anthraquinone compound. |
Reduces sugar levels in diabetic patients. |
Isphagola [Plantago ovata] |
Dried seeds and husk |
Mucilage, fixed fatty oil, linolic acid, glucoside |
Laxative and diuretic. |
Jatamansi [Nardostachy Jatamansi] |
Rhizomes |
Essential oil known as spikenard oil. |
Tonic stimulant, antispasmodic, diuretic, deobstruent, emmenagogue and laxative |
Kon [Astragalus bracteata] |
Roots and leaves |
Gum-like tragacanth |
Demulcent and emollient |
lotus [Lotus corniculatus] |
Seeds |
Glucoside |
Promotes secretion of breast milk. |
madder [Rubia cordifolia] |
Roots. |
Glucoside munjistin |
anti diarrhea and anti dysentery, emmenagogue, astringent, diuretic/ diuretic, cardiac, antimelanoma, antiinflammatory, antidiarrheal, antidysentery |
Narasala [Lobelia nictianaefolia] |
Leaves and roots. |
Alkaloid Lobeline |
Anti-asthmatic. |
Narvela [Viburnum foeticlum] |
leaves |
Foetid volatile essential oil, alkaloids, gum, resin |
Acrid, uterine, astringent, sedative and emmenagogue. |
Papita [Carica Papaya] |
Leaves |
Carpine present in leaves, fruit is source of vitamin and papin |
For tooth ache and abdominal disease. |
Passiflora [Passiflora foetida] |
Fruit, Leaves and root |
Hydrocynic acid |
Treating nervous problems. |
Phudina [Menthae Pierita] |
Leaves. |
Leaves contain a volatile oil, menthol, resin. tannin and gum. |
Antiseptic, deodrant, stimulant and caminative, externally it is used in headache, rheumatism, neuralagia. |
Safed musil [Chlorophytum arundinaceum] |
Root |
|
Good tonic, Used in diabetic, cardiac stimulant |
Sarpagandha [Rauvolfia sarpentina] |
Roots |
Alkaloids ophioxylin resin, starch and wax. |
Drug rauvolfia speacially used for nervous disorders, anxiety, excitement manical behaviour |
Senna Leaves and Pods [Cassia Angustifolia] |
Leaves, Pods |
Anthraquinone, sennoside, flavonoides, volatile oils, cathartic Acid |
Stimulant, laxative, purgative |
Shankpushpi [Evolvulus alsinoides] |
Whole plant, leaves |
Neutral fat, an alkaloid and organic acid |
Tonic, febrifuge, Promoting growth of hair |
Show flower [Hibiscus rosasinensis] |
Flowers, leaves |
Potash, tartaric acid and malic acids, sugar, mucilage, lannin and salt. |
Refregerant, emollient, demulcent and aphrodisiac, muciaginous infusion of petals regualtre irreregular mensuration. |
Taga [Cassia tora] |
Leaves |
Glucoside, emodin-glucoside |
Leaves internally gentle aperient, externally germicide and antiparasitic |
Tagar [Valerian wallichi] |
Roots. |
Conatianing esters of valerianic acid, volatile oil. |
Sedative properties, lowers blood pressure, |
Vetasa, Bet [Calamus rotang] |
Root.s, leaves and stem. |
Volatile essential oil |
Given in chronic fever, antidote to snake venom, used in diseases of the bllod in billousness |
Vilati amli [Garcinia cambogia] |
Fruits. |
Acids,tartaric,citric& phosphoric,essential oiland resin |
Decreases appetite, helps promote the conversion of blood sugar into glycogen. |
Worm killer [Aristolochia bracteata] |
Root and leaves |
Alkoloid and salts of potassium chloride |
Purgative, emmenagogue, alterative, antiperiodic, anthelmintic. |
Yellow Dock [Rumex crispus] |
Root., leaves |
Chrysophanic acid, tannin, calcium oxalate, mucilage, starch and essential oil. |
Purgative, astringent for all types of ulcer. |