ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA

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Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA OR WALL (Kalmegb) Plant Introduction: This plant is generally 1-3 ft high, having dichotomous helicoid branch arrangement. Leaf blades are 2-3 inch long with thin stalk and acute formation. Each lamina contains 4-6 veins. Stalk is 1/4 inch long. Flowers are small in size a...

General Description

ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA OR WALL (Kalmegb) Plant Introduction: This plant is generally 1-3 ft high, having dichotomous helicoid branch arrangement. Leaf blades are 2-3 inch long with thin stalk and acute formation. Each lamina contains 4-6 veins. Stalk is 1/4 inch long. Flowers are small in size and appear one by one; florescence takes place from the end of rainy season to winter. Growing Places : Found all over India. In West Bengal-Howrah, Shib-pore Botanical Garden, Hoogly, 24 Parganas, Medinipur, Bankura; in Lucknow, Assam etc. Name: In Sanskrit-Mahatikta; Tamil & Telegu-Neelabhemu; Bengali-Kalmegh; Hindi-Kiriyat, Mahatita; Marathi-Olikirata, English and Latin-Andrographis Paniculata or Wall. Arab Quasabuzzarfah. Family: Acanthaceae. Chemical Composition: We find in Dr. Chopra's ...

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ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA OR WALL

(Kalmegb)

Plant Introduction:

This plant is generally 1-3 ft high, having dichotomous helicoid branch arrangement. Leaf blades are 2-3 inch long with thin stalk and acute formation. Each lamina contains 4-6 veins. Stalk is 1/4 inch long. Flowers are small in size and appear one by one; florescence takes place from the end of rainy season to winter.

Growing Places :

Found all over India. In West Bengal-Howrah, Shib-pore Botanical Garden, Hoogly, 24 Parganas, Medinipur, Bankura; in Lucknow, Assam etc.

Name:

In Sanskrit-Mahatikta;
Tamil & Telegu-Neelabhemu;
Bengali-Kalmegh;
Hindi-Kiriyat, Mahatita;
Marathi-Olikirata,
English and Latin-Andrographis Paniculata or Wall.
Arab Quasabuzzarfah.
Family: Acanthaceae.

Chemical Composition:

We find in Dr. Chopra's book-Dymock and his co workers found a large quantity of Potassium salts. Dr. Gorter (1911) thought that the bitter substance in the leaves was a lactone of 'andrographoide' or andrographolic acid of the formula C_{20} H_{30} O_{s} and C_{20} H_{32} O_{6} In 1914 Dr. Bhaduri showed that the leaves contained two bitter substances and traces of an essential oil. First he found alkaloid and glucosides and secondly he found amorphous form which was named Kalmegh in C_{19} H_{51} 05 M. P. 185.
Time of collection of plant:
End of the rainy season.
Pharmaceutical use:
The whole tree.
Therapeutic uses:
The extract is strengthening, anthelmintic and a remedy for diarrhoea and dysentery; also useful in weakness.
Macroscopic structure:
The transverse section of the stem shows a thick woody region surrounded by a thin outer bark.
Symptoms

Mind: 

The patient is forgetful, can not remember anything, absent minded, dejected; does no want to speak; hot tempered.

Head: 

Heaviness of the head, particulary in the afternoon; headache; drowsiness; giddiness.

Nose: 

Creeping sensation of the nose, pricking sensation, the nose runs.

Eyes: 

Yellowish eyes with tears; dim-sightedness.

Face: 

Pale and yellow face.

Tongue: 

Yellowish; bitter taste; sticky salivation; halitosis.

Stomach:

Nausea; prefers hot or warm food; pain in the right belly; relief after taking food.

Abdomen:

Janudice due to hindrance in the function of lever and gall-bladder, flatulence, enlargement of the spleen;
takes food reluctantly; weakness; worms in the intestine.

Urine: 

Yellow and turbid; contains froth.

Stool: 

Hard, bright coloured like clay; pellet formed; irritation of the rectum.

Lungs: 

Dyspnoea; sighness; pain in the right chest; cough; rattle in the throat; aphonia-particularly in the afternoon.

Back:

Pain in the right back; neck is benumbed by pain.

Limbs: 

Pain in the hands and legs; weakness; painful mov ments; cold feet; pain in the knees and toes; emptiness.

Skin: 

Scabies; dry and yellowish skin; painful pimples: unpleasant odour of the body
Dose: 5 to 10 minims thrice daily.

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"Lips that are dry, burning and cracked have been relieved by GRAPHITES 6. Give three doses daily."

By Dr. E.P.Anshutz Cracked Lips

"GRAPHITES to overcome the tendency to repeated attacks of erysipelas."

By Dr. C.H.Denmann, M.D. Erysipelas

"GRAPHITES is almost a specific remedy for women-s diseases, due to diminished hormonal activity."

By Dr. V.Karo, M.D. Diminished Hormonal Activity

"You must remember the use of GRAPHITES in the removal of cicatrices. This remedy seems to have the property of causing the absorption of cicatrical tissue."

By Dr. E.A.Farrington, M.D. Cicatrices

"Chronic ciliary blepharitis: GRAPHITES is the most frequently indicated remedy for ciliary blepharitis and a more rapid cure can usually be effected by its local application at the same time of its internal administration."

By Dr. Norton, M.D. Chronic Ciliary Blepharitis

"In any case with persistent scarring, I should certainly put the patient on to GRAPHITES low, say, 6, for a week or a fortnight and see if I could not diminish it."

By Dr. D.M.Borland, M.B.,Ch.B. Persistent Scarring

"The 3x trituration of GRAPHITES has been reported as curing several cases of elephantiasis. These reported cases were from the United States and from Germany."

By Dr. E.P.Anshutz Elephantiasis

"GRAPHITES is excellent for singers who cannot control their vocal cords and who develop hoarseness and cracked voice as soon as they begin to sing."

By Dr. Farrington, M.D. Hoarseness

"Athlete's foot, fungus"

By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines) Tinea Pedis

"Fungal infection of nails"

By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines) Paronychia

Remedy Profile

  • Type Plant
  • Common Name N/A
  • Origin Source Natural
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