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ARJUNA OR TERMINALIA ARJUNA

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Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

ARJUNA OR TERMINALIA ARJUNA (Arjan) Plant Introduction: The tree is high and attains a height of 30-32 ft. The stem is thick. Leaf blade is elliptical and notched. Flowers are yellowish white; fructification happens in winter. Time of collection: Rainy season and winter, Name: Sanskrit Arjun or K...

General Description

ARJUNA OR TERMINALIA ARJUNA (Arjan) Plant Introduction: The tree is high and attains a height of 30-32 ft. The stem is thick. Leaf blade is elliptical and notched. Flowers are yellowish white; fructification happens in winter. Time of collection: Rainy season and winter, Name: Sanskrit Arjun or Kokab; Bengali-Arjun; Koi; English-Arjun tree; Latin-Terminalia Arjuna.   Family: Combretaceae. Pharmaceutical use: Bark and leaves of tree. Chemical Composition: Caystalline compounds viz-Arjunine, Arjunatin, lactonic constituents, Essential oil; Tannin Reducing Sugar. Physio Chemical action: Through out the body but most effective region is head to bust. Therapeutic uses: Strengthens the heart; blood purifier; conjunctive to cracked bone; useful in hacmatemesis, ulcers and is a good expect...

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ARJUNA OR TERMINALIA ARJUNA

(Arjan)

Plant Introduction:

The tree is high and attains a height of 30-32 ft. The stem is thick. Leaf blade is elliptical and notched. Flowers are yellowish white; fructification happens in winter.
Time of collection:
Rainy season and winter,

Name:

Sanskrit Arjun or Kokab;
Bengali-Arjun; Koi;
English-Arjun tree;
Latin-Terminalia Arjuna.
 
Family:
Combretaceae.
Pharmaceutical use:
Bark and leaves of tree.
Chemical Composition:
Caystalline compounds viz-Arjunine, Arjunatin, lactonic constituents, Essential oil; Tannin Reducing Sugar.
Physio Chemical action:
Through out the body but most effective region is head to bust.
Therapeutic uses:
Strengthens the heart; blood purifier; conjunctive to cracked bone; useful in hacmatemesis, ulcers and is a good expectorant.

Opinions of differnt scholars and physicians

Charak said-It is useful in sanguinary cough and boils.
Bagabhatta - Useful in diabetes.
Chakradutta - In fracture of bones and heart diseases.
Bhavaprakash - In cough of T. B. patient.
Sushrut - In spermatorrhoea.
Dr. Everson obtained wonderful result by administering it in the heart diseases in the year 1890.
Symptomps

Mind:

Always anxious worried; prefers loneliness; palpitation.

Head:

Heaviness of the head; especially, in the rear portion.

Ears:

Sensation of drum beat; buzzing sound in the ears.

Mouth:

Tastelessness, bitter taste; dryness; thirst.

Stomach:

Loss of appetite; nausea.

Stool:

Constipation.

Urine:

Trickling discharge with irritation.

Lungs:

Gripping Sensation; dyspnoea; always puts hands on the chest; feels trouble in ascending through steps of the staircase; sigh pain relief on pressure; pleasure in cold atmosphere or fan air.

Heart:

Throbbing sensation, suffocation; cough; stinging pain and palpitation; angina pectoris. This medicine is quite helpful in cases of weakness of the heart caused by bery bery or any other complicated disease and may be administered in high or violent fever. To be taken in milk. Sleep: Insomnia; dream in the hole night viz.-fighting scene, suicide scene; fear on closing the eyes.

Male gen. organ: 

Pulpitation during inter course; fails to copulate perfectly; fearfulness.

Female Rep. Organ: 

Lack of sexual desire; fearfulness by hearing the proposal of inter course; fear and anxiety during menstrual discharge; leucorrhoea or catamenia follwed by weakness of the body.

Therapeutic uses In cough:

to be taken with Vasaka Tinc. in case of suffering from T. B. Acalypha Ind. and Vasaka are worth mentioning in haematemesis. dependable Drug for Low Blood Pressure.
To stop bleeding applied with durba grass to the injury caused either by hurt or any other reason.
This drug works like the Allopathic Tendrill, Analgin; Homoeopathic-Arnica, Ruta, Hypericum, Symphytum etc. According to Dr. Evin, application of this drug is very useful in case of fracture or injury of bone. Application of Arjun bark and garlic pulp in wet form sets bone (in combination with butter.).
Charak has advised application of this drug on pimples.
I think that Arjun gives efficacious result in low blood pressure but it should be taken with milk, least twice daily.
Dose: 5-20 minims according to the nature and age of patient.

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"Useful as a preventive in malaria"

By Dr. Sunirmal Sarkar Malaria

Remedy Profile

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

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