CALOTROPIS CICANTEA

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Clinical Applications

CALOTROPIS CICANTEA   Plant Introduction: It is a very well known tree, can be found every where in India. It generally grows in the unploughed land. This drug has long been used by the Hindu physicians. It is known in the Arabian states too. It may be seen in the fields of Himalayan regions...

General Description

CALOTROPIS CICANTEA   Plant Introduction: It is a very well known tree, can be found every where in India. It generally grows in the unploughed land. This drug has long been used by the Hindu physicians. It is known in the Arabian states too. It may be seen in the fields of Himalayan regions of Punjab, Nepal, Assam, Bihar etc. at the height of 3000 ft or more.   In the Mahabharata we find that in the city of Avanti-Uddalak, a desciple of Sandipan used to take the new leaves of this drug for appeasing hunger. Consequently, he became lean and thin and received blindness of the eyes. Name: In Sanskrit-Arka, Maandar Bengali-Akanda; Hindi-Moder: Arabiyan-Khark: Gujarati Ekado; Telegu-Badabdum; English-Mudar Giagantic Swaloroot: Latin-Calotropis Gigantea. Another name of it is Veget...

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CALOTROPIS CICANTEA

 

Plant Introduction:

It is a very well known tree, can be found every where in India. It generally grows in the unploughed land. This drug has long been used by the Hindu physicians. It is known in the Arabian states too. It may be seen in the fields of Himalayan regions of Punjab, Nepal, Assam, Bihar etc. at the height of 3000 ft or more.
 
In the Mahabharata we find that in the city of Avanti-Uddalak, a desciple of Sandipan used to take the new leaves of this drug for appeasing hunger. Consequently, he became lean and thin and received blindness of the eyes.

Name:

In Sanskrit-Arka,
Maandar Bengali-Akanda;
Hindi-Moder: Arabiyan-Khark: Gujarati Ekado;
Telegu-Badabdum; English-Mudar Giagantic Swaloroot:
Latin-Calotropis Gigantea.
Another name of it is Vegetable Mercury.
 
Family: Asclepiadeae.
 
Pharmaceutical use: Whole of the tree viz. root, leaves, gum etc.
 
Therapeutic action: The bitter principle is appetizing ard stomachic, eva-cuating agent for bowels, anti-phlegmatic and is very useful remedy for flatulence, dropsy, fever, leprosy, some skin diseases, enlargement of the spleen and liver; has anthel-mintic action.
 
Chemical composition: According to Col. Chopra-The root and the bark are used medicinally. The active principle appears to be a yellow resin, besides which the root bark also contains two substances named by Warden and Waddel 'Madar Alban' and 'Madar Fluavil' closely resembling the alban and fluavil found in gutta-percha. It cor.tains no alkaloids.

Symptomps

Mind: Disapplontment; down cast; tiredness; sentimental and annoyed.
 
Head: Giddiness; weariness due to headache which genera ally appears after 11 A.M. and persists till night.
 
Mouth: Dry and white coated tongue with crack marks; ulcer; bad breath and abnormal salivation; syncopation.
 
Stomach: Flatulence; rumbling in the bowels; belching; colicky pain in case of existence of skin disease too; nausea.
 
Heart: Fast pulse; heaviness of the chest pain in the heart as if some one has stabbed the patient; suppression of the phlegm; weakness. Phlegmatic disorders may be checked by the intake of this drug.
 
Bladder: Frequent discharge of urine; some times scanty; the urine is yellow in colour, non-sedimenting, has a pungent odour and contains blood.
 
Male Gen Organ: Ulcer of the penis; emission of pus from the wound resembling ring worm; bloody semenal emission; bubonic inflammation; wound of scrotum and urethra with itching; oozing of a fetid juice in syphilis.
 
Female Rep. Organ: Ulcer of the vagina; suppuration of the ulcer; oozing of a fetid juice from the ulcer or wound; affected part itches during menstrual flux which some times become unbearable. The nipples shrink.
 
Back: Creeping sensation of the back bone as if some one is creeping over the back; Chilliness.
 
Skin disease: Cracky fingers of hands and legs; wounds; leprosy; dryness of the skin wound of ring worm from which exudes a fetid juice; bed-sore; syphilitic nodes; l:erpes.
 
Sleep: Insomnia due to anxiety; the patient rolls over in bed.
 
Fever: Fever caused by septic ulcer; burning sensation of the head and throat attended with fever; creeping sensation. This drug is useful in reducing fat of the body.
 
Dose: 5-10 minims twice daily.

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"Dr. Baker of Moravia cured, during an epidemic of cerebrospinal meningitis, 60 cases of all degrees of meningitis without the loss of a single case. He thinks CICUTA VIROSA as near a specific for this disease can be."

By Dr. Nash, M.D. Cerebrospinal Meningitis

"For convulsions which are violent-whether epileptic, cataleptic, clonic or tonic, eclampsia."

By Dr. Guernsey, M.D. Convulsions

Remedy Profile

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

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