Aganosma dichotoma Health Dictionary

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(Roth) K. Schum.

Synonym: A. caryophyllata G. Don

Family: Apocynaceae.

Habitat: Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu; often cultivated in Indian gardens.

Ayurvedic: Madhumaalati.

Action: Antiseptic; anodyne (an ingredient in massage oils for paraplegia, neuralgia, sciatica); also anthelmintic and emetic.

The leaves contain quercetin, kaem- pferol and phenolic acids. Shoot tips and flower buds contain tannin.

Aganosma calycina A. DC. is also equated with Madhumaalati.
Health Source: Indian Medicinal Plants
Author: Health Dictionary

Actiniopteris Dichotoma

Kuhn.

Synonym: A. australis (L. f.) Link. A. radiata (Sw.) Link. A. dichotoma Kuhn.

Family: Adiantaceae.

Habitat: Throughout India, especially common in Kumaon Hills and the Nilgiris, below an altitude of 1,200 m.

English: Peacocks tail.

Ayurvedic: Mayurshikhaa, Madhu- chhadaa, Sahastrahi, Vahrishikhaa.

Action: Styptic, antibacterial, antipyretic.

The stems and leaves contain rutin, a styptic active principle. Anthelmintic activity, attributed to the fern, was not observed in experiments on mice.

Dosage: Root—3-5 g powder. (CCRAS.)... actiniopteris dichotoma

Tabernaemontana Dichotoma

Roxb.

Synonym: Ervatamia dichotoma Blatter.

Rejoua dichotoma Gamble.

Family: Apocynaceae.

Habitat: Western Ghats at low elevations.

English: Eve's Apple, Forbidden Fruit.

Siddha/Tamil: Kandalaippalai, Kattalari-palai.

Folk: Tengari (Var.).

Action: Seed, leaves, bark— purgative. Latex—cathartic.

The fruit gave the alkaloid, coronaridine. Root bark gave alkaloids— heyneanine and voacristine hydrox- yindolenine. The petroleum ether-ex- tractable alkaloids of the fruit showed CNS depressant and hypotensive activities.

Tabernaemontana heyneana Wall., synonym, Ervatamia heyneana Cooke is also equated with Tengari of Indian medicine.

The wood and stembark yielded indole alkaloids; ursolic acid, beta-amy- rin andbeta-amyrin acetate. A number of alkaloids showed cytotoxic activity. (Phytochemistry, 19,1980.)... tabernaemontana dichotoma

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