The abbreviation for antidiuretic hormone (also called vasopressin), which is released from the posterior part of the pituitary gland and acts on the kidneys to increase their reabsorption of water into the blood. reduces the amount of water lost in the urine and helps to control the body’s overall water balance. production is controlled by the hypothalamus. Various factors can affect production and thus disturb the body’s water balance, including drinking alcohol, the disorder diabetes insipidus, or a major operation.
antidiuretic hormone (see vasopressin).
The abnormal union of two normally separate tissues. Adhesion may occur after in?ammation or surgery; the result is often a ?brous band between the adjacent tissues. Examples are adhesions between joint surfaces – which reduce mobility of a joint – or, after operation, between loops of intestine, where the ?brous band may cause obstruction. Movement of the heart may be restricted by adhesions between the organ and its membranous cover, the pericardial sac.... adhesion
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Synonym: A. zeylanica Medic. Justicia adhatoda Linn.
Family: Acanthaceae.
Habitat: Throughout India, up to an altitude of 1,300 m.
English: Malabar Nut, Vasaca.
Ayurvedic: Vaasaa, Vaasaka, Vaasikaa, Simhaasya, Simhaparni, Simhavadanaa, Vaajidanta, Vrisha, Aataruushaka.
Unani: Arusaa.
Siddha/Tamil: Aadaathodai.
Folk: Vasaakaa.
Action: Expectorant (used in bronchial, asthmatic and pulmonary affections), antispasmodic, febrifuge.
Key application: As bronchodilatory, expectorant. (Indian Herbal Pharmacopoeia.) The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India indicates its use in dyspnoea.The chief quinazoline alkaloid vas- icine is reported in all parts of the plant, the highest being in inflorescence. It is a bitter bronchodilator, respiratory stimulant, hypotensive, cardiac depressant, uterotonic and aborti- facient. An aqueous solution of va- sicinone hydrochloride, when studied in mice and dogs, was found to potentiate the bronchodilatory activity of aminophylline, also that of isopre- naline. Vasicinone exhibited smooth- muscle-relaxant properties of airways.Alkaloids present in the plant showed significant protection against allergin-induced bronchial obstruction in guinea pigs.The leaves are found to activate the digestive enzyme trypsin.An extract of the leaves showed significant antifungal activity against ringworm.Adhatoda beddomei C.B. Clarke, found in Kerala, is considered to be more powerful and active than A. vasi- ca. Fresh leaf juice is used in haemoptysis and menorrhagia, also as an antiasthmatic.Jacobinia tinctoria Henl. is equated with the red-flowered var. of Vaasaa.
Dosage: Leaf—10-20 ml juice. Dried leaves—10-20 g for deoction. Root—3-6 g powder. (API Vols. I, IV)... adhatoda vasica
(Hindi) A learned woman Adhitta, Adhittah, Adhitah, Adhyta, Adhytah, Adhytta, Adhyttah... adhita
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