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Linn.

Family: Chenopodiaceae.

Habitat: A common herb. Its leaves and tender twigs are used as vegetable and fodder.

English: Fat Hen, Lamb's Quarter, White Goosefoot, Wild Spinach, Pigweed.

Ayurvedic: Vaastuuka.

Unani: Bathuaa, Baathu.

Siddha/Tamil: Paruppukeerai.

Folk: Bathuaa, Chilli, Chilli-shaak

Action: Laxative, anthelmintic against round-and hookworms, blood-purifier, antiscorbutic. An infusion is used for hepatic disorders, spleen enlargement, biliousness, intestinal ulcers. Used for treating burns.

The leaves yield ascaridole, used for treating round-and hookworms. The oil also contain traces of ascaridole. Plant contains 8% saponins. Cryp- tomeridiol, isolated from the seeds, showed significant growth promoting activity.
Health Source: Indian Medicinal Plants
Author: Health Dictionary

Albuminuria

The presence of serum albumin and serum globulin in the urine... albuminuria

Albumin

The most abundant protein in the blood plasma. Albumin is made in the liver from amino acids. It helps to retain substances (such as calcium, some hormones, and certain drugs) in the circulation by binding to them to prevent them from being filtered out by the kidneys and excreted. Albumin also regulates the movement of water between tissues and the bloodstream by osmosis. (See also albuminuria.)... albumin

Albumins

Albumins are water-soluble proteins which enter into the composition of all the tissues of the body. Albumins are generally divided according to their source of origin, as muscle-albumin, milk-albumin, blood- or serum-albumin, egg-albumin, vegetable-albumin, etc. These di?er both in chemical reactions and also physiologically. Serum-albumin occurs in blood PLASMA where it is important in maintaining plasma volume.

When taken into the stomach, all albumins are converted into a soluble form by the process of DIGESTION and then absorbed into the blood, whence they go to build up the tissues. Albumin is synthesised in the liver, and in chronic liver disease this process is seriously affected. (See PROTEINURIA; KIDNEYS, DISEASES OF – Glomerulonephritis.)... albumins

Chenopodium Ambrosioides

Linn.

Family: Chenopodiaceae.

Habitat: Native to West Indies and South America. Now distributed in South India, Bengal, Kashmir and Maharashtra in wet places with cultivated lands.

English: Indian Wormseed, Sweet Pigweed, Mexican Tea.

Ayurvedic: Sugandh-vaastuuka, Kshetra-vaastuuka.

Siddha/Tamil: Kattasambadam.

Folk: Khatuaa.

Action: Antispasmodic, pectoral, haemostatic, emmenagogue. Employed in treating nervous affections, particularly chorea. Dried herb—anthelmintic against round and hookworms.

Ascaridole, an active constituent of the oil, is highly active against round- worms, hookworms and small, but not large, tapeworms. It is highly toxic and can cause serious side effects.

The oil has been found useful in amoebic dysentery and intestinal infections (should be used with caution).

Leaves contain kaempferol-7-rham- noside and ambroside.

A decoction of the herb is given as an internal haemostatic and the infusion as an enema for intestinal ulceration. The infusion is sudorific and diuretic.

The oil exhibits antimicrobial and strong antifungal activity against human pathogenic fungi.... chenopodium ambrosioides

Chenopodium Botrys

Linn.

Family: Chenopodiaceae.

Habitat: The Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim.

English: Feather Geramium, Jerusalem-Oak.

Folk: Jangaddi (Tibbet). Sahanik, Vaastuuka (Ladakh).

Action: Stimulant, diuretic, carminative, antispasmodic, emme- nagogue, pectoral. Used in asthma, catarrh; diseases of the stomach and liver. Seeds are considered toxic.

The herb contains flavonoids (including chrysoeriol and quercetin), also several sesquiterpenoids. Betaine is found in all parts of the plant.

Fresh herb yields an essential oil; Indian oil is reported to be devoid of as- caridole, the anthelmintic principle.... chenopodium botrys

Gnaphalium Luteo-album

Linn.

Family: Asteraceae.

Habitat: Throughout India, ascending up to 3,350 m in the Himalayas.

English: Jersey Cudweed, Cotton Weed, Cat's Foot, Everlasting Flower.

Folk: Bal-raksha.

Action: Leaves—astringent, haemostatic, vulnerary. The tomentum is applied as counter- irritant in gout, also used as tinder.... gnaphalium luteo-album

Lamium Album

Linn.

Family: Labiatae; Lamiaceae.

Habitat: West Himalayas from Kashmir to Kumaon.

English: White Dead Nettle, Archangel.

Action: Haemostatic (particularly on the uterus), astringent, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, expectorant. Used for menorrhagia, leucorrhoea, cystitis, prostatitis, bleeding piles, diarrhoea, irritable bowel and respiratory catarrh.

Key application: Internally, for catarrh of the upper respiratory passages; externally, for mild, superficial inflammation of the skin. (German Commission E.) Flowers have been recommended for teas and other galenical preparations for internal applications, rinses, baths and moist compresses. As astringent. (The British Herbal Pharmacopoeia.)

The herb contains iridoid monoterpenes; triterpene saponins; caffeic acid derivatives; flavonoids based on kaem- pferol; tannins (mainly catechins). The plant also gave a carbocyclic iridoid, caryoptoside; besides lambalbide, al- bosides A and B (iridoid monoter- penes).... lamium album

Albumose

n. a substance, intermediate between albumin and peptones, produced during the digestion of proteins by pepsin and other endopeptidases (see peptidase).... albumose

Santalum Album

Linn.

Family: Santalaceae.

Habitat: Dry regions of Peninsular India from Vindhya mountains southwards, especially in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

English: White Sandalwood.

Ayurvedic: Chandana, Shvetachan- dana, Shrikhanda, Bhadra-Shree, Gandhsaara, Malayaja, Hima, Ekaangi.

Unani: Sandal Safed, Sandal-e- Abyaz.

Siddha/Tamil: Chandanam, Sandana, Ingam.

Action: Cooling, diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant, antiseptic and bacteriostatic against Gram positive bacteria. Used as a urinary antiseptic in chronic cystitis and sexually transmitted diseases. A paste is applied to temples in headache, during fevers and on burns, local inflammations and skin diseases (to allay pruritus). Essential oil—antibacterial, antifungal. Used as urinary antiseptic in dysuria, urethral discharges and diseases of gallbladder.

Key application: In adjuvant therapy of infections of the lower urinary tract. Contraindicated in the diseases of the parenchyma of the kidney. (German Commission E.)

The bark contains a triterpene—urs- 12-en-3 butyl-palmitate. Chief constituents of the essential oil from heart- wood are alpha-and beta-santalol. Other constituents include sesquiterpene hydrocarbons—alpha-, beta-, epi- beta-santalene and alpha-and beta- curcumene and beta-farnesene. Dihy- droagarofuran is also present in the essential oil.

Dosage: Heartwood—3-6 g powder. (API, Vol. III.)... santalum album

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