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asked by Guest on 30 January 2011 18:23
What are the health benefits, uses, medicinal properties, actions, ingredients, dosage of Arjuna herb?
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Arjuna herb Latin Identity - Arjuna herb
Arjuna herb Family Identity - Combretaceae
Arjuna herb Generic Identity - Arjun / Parth
Arjuna herb English Identity - Arjuna herb Myrobalan

Origin & Distribution


Arjuna herb is found in lower Himalayas / Bihar / Bengal / Chhota Nagpur / Burma / central & southern India.



Physical Appearance


tree has height of almost 25-30 meters. Bark is available in pieces / at / curved / channeled. Outer surface is smooth & gray / inner surface is fibrous & pinkish.

Important parts used


Bark

Medicinal properties


Bark is astringent / cardiac stimulant / tonic / lithonotriptic / styptic / tonic & antihelmentic

Health Benefits


Bark is cardiac tonic / lowers cholesterol & is used in urinary retention & diabetes. Arjuna herb is also used in fever & skin disorders. Arjuna herb is used in bilious affections / for sores & as an antidote to poison.
Leaves-juice of fresh leaves is used in earaches.
Fruit is both to tonic & obstruent.
Arjuna herb is useful in fractures / ulcers / heart disorders / biliousness / urinary discharges / asthma / tumors / leucoderma / anemia / & excessive perspiration

Composition


Bark contains crystalline compound arjunine / lactones / arjunetin / essential oils / tannin / reducing sugar & coloring matter. Terminalia's active constituents include tannins / triterpenoid saponins / flavonoids / gallic acid / ellagic acid / oligomeric proanthocyanidins / phytosterols / calcium / magnesium / zinc / & copper. Arjuna herb is thought saponin glycosides might be responsible for inotropic effects of Terminalia / while flavonoids & OPCs provide free radical antioxidant activity & vascular strengthening






Preparations
Kshirpak / juice / decoction / powder

Remedies for disorders

  • Blood & haemopoeitic tissue - Arjuna herb is used in decoction in hemorrhage & other fluxes.
  • Cardiovascular body system - Vaghbhatta was first to describe Arjuna herb in heart disorders. Arjuna herb is highly recommended in heart disorders complicated with endocarditis / mitral regurgitation / pericarditis / & angina.
  • Digestive body system - Arjuna herb is used in diarrhea / dysentery & sprue.
  • Reproductive body system - bark is used in spermatorrhea / gonorrhea
  • Respiratory body system - Arjuna herb acts as an expectorant & clears air passage.
  • Skin - Arjuna herb is used in Pruritis & other skin disorders
  • Musculoskeletal body system - with milk Arjuna herb is given in fractures & contusions with extensive ecchymosis as Arjuna herb promotes reunion of fracture.

Use of arjun in heart disorders

  1. Bark stem powder of Arjuna herb / 500mg three times daily / for 3 months to 12 heart operation showed enhancement in left ventricular ejection fraction & reduced left ventricular mass.Dwivedi 1997
  2. T. Arjuna herb bark powder reduced frequency of angina episodes in otherwise 15 stable patients.Dwivedi 1994

  



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all questions given below pls? and what is tulasi how it helps as a herb in ailments?


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