Knowledge of Herbs

By Sai ePublications

Ailanthus
Almond
Apple Tree
Arabian Jasmine
Arjun Tree
Asafoetida
Asiatic grewia
Asparagus
Bacopa
Balanite
Bamboo
Banyan Tree
Barbados Aloe
Barbreng
Bauhinia-Red (Red Ebony)
Beleric Myrobalans/ Beddanut
Belladonality
Belly ache bush
Bengal Gramm
Bengal Quince
Betal Leaf
Betal Nut Palm
Bhuianvla
Bitter Gourd
Bitter Luffa
Black Catechu
Black cumin/ Nigella Seed
Black Hellebore
Black Musale
Black night shade
Black Pepper
Black-basil
Black-kurchi (Kala-Kuda)
Blue shankhpushpi
Bonduc Nut (Fevernut)
Boxmyrtal/Bay-berry/Myrtalberry
Brinjal/Egg-Plant

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sai ePublications & Sai Shop
• Release date: Aug 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301080786

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KNOWLEDGE OF HERBS

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Knowledge of Herbs

by Sai ePublications

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Ailanthus

Almond

Apple Tree

Arabian Jasmine

Arjun Tree

Asafoetida

Asiatic grewia

Asparagus

Bacopa

Balanite

Bamboo

Banyan Tree

Barbados Aloe

Barbreng

Bauhinia-Red (Red Ebony)

Beleric Myrobalans/ Beddanut

Belladonality

Belly ache bush

Bengal Gramm

Bengal Quince

Betal Leaf

Betal Nut Palm

Bhuianvla

Bitter Gourd

Bitter Luffa

Black Catechu

Black cumin/ Nigella Seed

Black Hellebore

Black Musale

Black night shade

Black Pepper

Black-basil

Black-kurchi (Kala-Kuda)

Blue shankhpushpi

Bonduc Nut (Fevernut)

Boxmyrtal/Bay-berry/Myrtalberry

Brinjal/Egg-Plant

Broom Jute Sida

Bustard/Wild Ipecacaunha

Cabbage

Camphor plant

Carambola

Cardamon major

Cardamum fruit

Carrot Root

Cashewnut Tree

Castor oil Plant

Celery fruits

Celosia

Century plant

Chabulic Myrobalans

China-Root

Chireta

Cinnamombark

Citron

Clerodendron

Clove Tree

Cobra's saffron/ Ironwood of Assam

Colocynth/Bitter apple

Common cress

Common Jasmine

Common Purslane

Common Sweet basil

Coral Tree

Coriander

Country Mallow

Cow-hedge plant/Cowitch/Lyon Bean

Creeping cynodon

Crinum

Croton oil Seed

Cumin Seed

Curryleaf Tree

Cuscus grass

Custard Apple Tree

Datura

Devil's tree

Dillenia

Dodder

Dodi

Drum Stick Tree

East Indian walnut

Edible-stemmed Vine

Elephant Creeper

Emblic Myrobalan

Emetic nut/ Bushy Gardenia

Fennel Fruit

Fenu greek

Fetid cassia/ Ringworm Plant

Field Parpat

Fig Tree

Fine Leaved Fumitarie

Fiveleaved chaste Tree (Indian Privet)

Flame of the Forest

Fleabane

Flowers Priyangu

Four Leaved Cassia

Four O' clock Plant/ False Jalap

Foxglove

Garden Quinine

Garland Flower

Garlic

Giant Alocasia

Ginseng

Gorgon Fruit

Grape plant

Greater galangal/ Java Galangal

Guava Tree

Gummy Gardenia

Henna plant

Himalayan Cedar

Hogweed Horse Purslene

Holybasil/Sacred Basil

Indian Atees

Indian Bedellium tree

Indian Beech/ Pongame oil tree

Indian Berberry

Indian Cotton

Indian dill Fruit

Indian Gum tree

Indian hemp

Indian Ipecacaunha

Indian Jack Fruit

Indian Jalap

Indian Laburnum/ Pudding Pipe Tree

Indian Mallow

Indian mustard

Indian Night

Indian Penywort

Indian Rock foil

Indian sarsaparilla

Indian Senna

Indian sorrel

Indian Squill

Indian Teak Tree

Indian worm wood/Fleabane

Indianbirthwort

Indianshot

Indianspinach

Indion kino Tree

Ivy-gourd

Iyrisp

Jaquirity

Java apple or Black Plum

Jonesia Ashoka

Jujube

Juniper berry

Kadamba

Kantakari

Kosht

Lage Tamarix

Large Caltrops

Lemongrass/ Melisa grass

Life Plant/Stonecrop

Lime/plant

Linseed

Liquoric Root

Litchi

Lokate

Long Leaved Barleria

Long leaved Pine/ chir Pine

Long Pepper

Loranthus

Love apple /Wolf-Peach

Lusterfig

Mace

Madder Root/ Indian Madder

Maiden hair

Malabarnut

Malaya tea

Mango Tree

Mango-ginger

Margosa tree (Nimb tree)

Marigold

Marsh Mallow / Holly hock

Mast-tree

Mexican Poppy/Prickly poppy

Milk Bush

Milk Hedge

Milk weed

Monkey bread Tree/Baobab

Monkey Face Tree

Moonbeam/East Indian Roseby

Mountain Ebony

Mulberry

Musale

Night blooming Jasmine

Night Jasmine/Tree of Sorrow

Nutgrass

Nutmeg

Nux-vomica Tree/Poison nut tree

Onion

Orange Jasmine/ Indian Box-tree

Oriental Arbor-Vitae

Pagoda tree

Pandri-tilwan

Papaw Tree

Peach

Peppermint

Periwinkle

Persian Lilac

Physic-nut/Purgingnut

Pineapple

Plantain/Banana plant

Pomegranate Tree

Poplar leaved Fig Tree

Poppy Plant/Opium

Prickly Amaranthus

Prickly-chaff Flower

Pride of India

Prasniparni

Purple Flobane

Purple Lippia

Putranjiva

Radish

Rangoon Creeper

Ran-gooseberry

Rape seed Plant/ Winter cherry

Rasna

Red Cedar: The Toon

Red Hot: Cat-tail

Red Silk Cotton Tree

Red Wood Tree

Redchill / Capsicum

Rose

Rosha Grass

Sacred Lotus

Sandal wood

Sansiviera

Saral

Sarivan

Screw pine

Sebestan

Sensitive Plant

Sensitive Plant (Touch me not)

Serpentina

Sesame

Sespadula

Shallow wort

Shankh Pushpi

Shikakai. Acacia

Shivan

Shoe-Flower

Silver Oak

Sissoo Tree

Small Caltrops

Small Indian Ipecacuanha

Small Pepper

Small Purslane

Soapnut Tree

Spanish Pellitory

Spearmint

Spikenard

Spinach

Spinous kinotree

Spiny yellow-Barleria

Sponge Tree

Staff tree

Sugar Cane

Sun-flower

Surinam Madler

Sweet Flag

Sweet scented oleander/ Rooseberry spurge

Sweet Viola

Symplocos bark

Tamala tree

Tamarind

Tamarix (Red)

Tamba

Tanners Cassia

Tellicherry Bark

The Bishop's weed/ Ajova Seeds

The Creat

The day Jasmine

The Glory Lily

The Negro coffee

The Sal Tree

Thorne apple

Tinospora/ Guduchi

Tiutin

Trailing Eclipta

Triangular sponge

Turk's Turbon

Turmeric

Varun

Velvetleaf

Water chest Nut

White goose foot/Lamb's guarters

White leadwort

White Musale

Wild corm/Vegetable-Cultivated corm

Wild Gourd

Wild Indigo

Wild Mung

Wild udad

Wild-basil

Wildsage

Winged leaved Clitoria

Wood Apple

Yam

Yellow champa

Yellow oleader/ Luckynut

Yellow sarson/Indian Colza/Rape seed

Yellow-cleome

Zinger Plant

Ailanthus

Hindi Name: Arlavo

Family Name: Simarubaceae

Botanical Name: Ailanthus excelsa (Roxb)

Part Used: Leavea and Bark.

Habit: A large lofty tree 60 to 80 feet high, Leaves Compound 2-3 feet long.

Taste: Bitter-Astringent.

Chemical Constituents: Bark Contains: Glaucarubin, glauca rubinone, Excelsin, Glaucarubol, Ailanthion, Ail antic acid, Malanthin, Tricontane; Hexatricontance. Leaves Contain: Ailantic acid, Beta-Sitosterol (Vitexin).

Actions: Bitter Tonic, Astringent, Antipyretic, Antispasmodic, Stomachic, Anthelmintic.

Used-In: Dyscrasia, Malaria, Asthma, Bronchitis, Dyspepsia, Burning, sensation. Dysentery, Paste of Leaves: Locally Appliedon Ulcers, Goiter swelling, Erysipalous.

Almond

Hindi Name: Badam

Family Name: Rosaceae

Botanical Name: Prunus amygdalus Batsch

Part Used: Seeds.

Habit: A medium sized tree; Leaves in cluster at the end of branches, liner and undulate. Flowers white with red spots. Seeds flat and ovate.

Taste: Sweet.

Chemical Constituents: Sweet Almond Contains Oil. Bitter Almond Contains A poisonous element-Hydrocynic acid, It is found in Volatile oil of Amond.

Actions: Almond Sweet, Oily, Tonic, Corminative, Nervine Tonic, Stimulant, Kapha-Pittakar; Unripen fruits are Oily, Carminative, Anti billious. Ripen Fruits are-Oily, Carminative, Spermopoietic, Kapha-karak, Anti-Scorbutic. Seed-sweet, oily, Nutritive, Carminative, Anti billious.

Used-In: Respiratory trouble, Diabetes, Urinogenital System, Leucorrhoea, Lumbago.

Apple Tree

Hindi Name: Seva

Family Name: Rosaceae

Botanical Name: Pyrus malus (Linn)

Part Used: Fruit, Bark and Root.

Habit: A medium sized tree; Leaves ovate, glabrous above, tomentose beneath, Crenate, long petioled; Flowers pink; Fruits globose Pome.

Taste: Sweet-Astringant.

Chemical Constituents: Leaves and Buds Contain:- Glycoside, Sorbitol, Sucrose, Glucose; Fruits Cuticle Contains:- Glucoside, Diglucoside, Galactoside, Rhamnoside, Arabinoside, Xyloside of Quercetin, P-Coumaric acid and Phlorizin; Apple skin Contains: Ursolit acid, 2-Beta hyderoxy ursolic acid; Fruit Contains: Matic acid, Licythin; Salts-Posassium, Calciumoxalate and Ph-lorizin.

Actions: Nutritive, Appitizer, Spermopoietic, Heart tonic.

Used-In: Diarrhoea, Hemorrhagic disease, Asthma, Dyspepsia, Fruits are heart tonic.

Arabian Jasmine

Hindi Name: Mogra

Family Name: Oleaceae

Botanical Name: Jasminum Sambac (Ait.)

Part Used: Whole plant, Flowers, Leaves and Roots.

Habit: A scandent shrub, young shoots are pubescent, leaves simple opposite, Flowers white & scented.

Taste: Bitter, Sweet.

Chemical Constituents: Plant Contains: Limonene, Linalool, Myrcene, Benzyl acetate Mrthylbenzoate, Methylsalicylate (oill) Jasmine, Jasminene, Kaempferol, Quercetin, Rutin, Alpha-Amyrin, Betulin, Betulinic acid, Friedelin, Lupeol, Oleanicacid, Ursolic acid, Beta-sitosterol, Sambacin, Sambacolignoside, Sambacoside, Manitol and Sucrose.

Actions: Cooling, Aromatic Sweet, Aphrodisiac, Antibillious, Wound healer, Anti-inflammatory, Uterous stimulant.

Used-In: Stomatitis, Ulcers, opthalmia, Emmenagogue, Paste of leaves and Flowers: Externally applied on breast abscess, Essential oil of flowers: useful in Ear, Nose and Mouth.

Arjun Tree

Hindi Name: Arjun

Family Name: Combretaceae

Botanical Name: Terminalia arjuna. Bedd.

Part Used: Bark, Leaves and Fruits.

Habit: A large tree with white bark. Leaves opposite or alternate and coriaceous. Flowers in axillary spikes; fruits winged.

Taste: Astringent.

Chemical Constituents: Bark Contains:- Beta-sitosterol, Arjunic acid, Friedlene, Glucoside (Arjunetic). Tannins, Sugars, Sodium, Magnessium, Aluminium, Calciumcarbonate.

Actions: Diuretic, Astringent, Cooling, Heart tonic, Spasmogenic, Wound healing.

Used-In: Heart and Liver disease, Significantly effective on Cardiovascular system, Styptic, tuberculosis, Cough, Dyscrasia, Polyuria, Fever, Ulcer.

Asafoetida

Hindi Name: Heeng

Family Name: Umbelliferae

Botanical Name: Ferula foetide (Regd. Syn) feruala narthex (Boiss)

Part Used: Gum Resin.

Habit: A small shrub tree 509 feet high, leaves hairy, ovate, decurrent, multifid, 1-2 feet long, flowers in terminal umbel of yellow colour.

Taste: Bitter-Acrid.

Chemical Constituents: Resin-Gum Contains: Volatile oil which Contains: Terpenes, Disulphide; Resin which contains: Asareinotannol, Asaresinol ferulic acid ester, Free ferulic acid, Gum.

Actions: Stimulant, Carminative, Aphrodisiac, Appitizer, Digestive, Stomachic Anti-spasmodic.

Used-In: Colic, Cholera, Malarial fever, Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Nervous disorder of Hysteria, Cough, Flatulance, Anthelmintic (Round worms) Nervine stimulant.

Asiatic grewia

Hindi Name: Phalsa

Family Name: Tillaceae

Botanical Name: Grewia subinaequalis (D. C. Syn)

Part Used: Roota bark, Fruits and Leaves.

Habit: Small tree and large shrub with gray and rough bark leaves stipulate with Serrat margin.

Taste: Sour (Fruit).

Chemical Constituents: Plant Contains: Lupeol Lupenon, Betulin, Fridelin, Taraxasterol, Beta-Amyrin, Grewionol, Glucose of delphinidin & cyanidin; Quercetin, Kaempferol and Amino acids & Citric acid, Vitamin-C.

Actions: Fruits: Cooling, Astringent, Demulcent, Appitizer, Antithirst.

Used-In: Ripe fruit sare: Appitizer and cures Oedema, is stomachic, Leaves Applied externally on: Pustular eruptions Bark of Root in Rheumatism.

Asparagus

Hindi Name: Shatavar

Family Name: Liliaceae

Botanical Name: Asparagus recemosus (Willd)

Part Used: Fleshyrots and cladodes.

Habit: Extensive spinous much branched climber, leafless with cladodes white & small Flowers.

Taste: Sweet.

Chemical Constituents: Fleshy roots Contains: Sugars, Mucilage & saponins, Fresh cladodes contain:- Diosgenin, Rhamnese and Glucose.

Actions: Rejuvenator, Nervine tonic; Astringent, Galactogogue, spermo poietic Heart tonic Diuretic.

Used-In: Threaten abortion, Leucorrhoea, Seminal debility, Goneral debility, Agalactia, Headach, Hysteria, Reduces blood pressure; Useful in acidity and ulcer patient, Extract of cladole is Anticancer.

Bacopa

Hindi Name: Jalneem

Family Name: Scrophulariaceae

Botanical Name: Bacopa monieri (Linn)

Part Used: Whole plant.

Habit: A small