CYNODON DACTYLON
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CYNODON DACTYLON (Harialee grass) Plant Introduction. A genus of creeping grasses. having short fiat leaves and digitate spikes of one flowered spikelets. This is available in all parts of India and is known in different names in the states. It is available in plenty and dies in winter. In fact, ...
General Description
CYNODON DACTYLON (Harialee grass) Plant Introduction. A genus of creeping grasses. having short fiat leaves and digitate spikes of one flowered spikelets. This is available in all parts of India and is known in different names in the states. It is available in plenty and dies in winter. In fact, it is a kind of lenear grass called 'Durba' ghass in Bengali or Hindi. Active power of remedy is immense in it. It has been divided into four parts or varieties according to the Hindu Science of Medicine viz. Blue, White, Rosary and Glandular but the blue variety is generally counted best among them. C. dactylon-is the Bermuda grass: syn-capriole Name: In Sanskrit-Durba, Sweta, Granthi, Bhargabi; Harnali; Bengali Durba; Hindi Doob Telegu Marathi-Durba; Punjabi-Talla-Doob;...
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
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CYNODON DACTYLON
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Opinions of different researchers.
- Charak: The drug is useful in bleeding from nose and carbuncle.
- Shusrut: In haematemesis.
- Chakradutta: Skin diseases and hindrance in menstrual flux of women.
- Bhavaprakash: Strangury and Painful micturition.
- Col R, L. Dutta, IMS, a famous allopath, says-The natural juice of Durba stops bleeding from piles: He also adds that he generally prescribes his patients to intake the drug with milk.
- Dr. N. C. Dutta, a renowned physician of Darbhanga District, Bihar, says that Greek physicians used to apply the drug for stopping nasal bleeding.
- Dr. Houseton says that the juice is very useful in phlegmatic infalmmation of the cyes.
- Dr, R. N. Khory (Mat Medica of India Vol. I p 640) says-It is demulcent and acid, used in checking vomiting and it stops bleeding from wounds.
- Dr. N. C. Dutta says-(Mat Med. of Hindus) medicinally, the fresh juice of the leaves is considered astringent and used as a snuff in epistaxis. The bruised grass is a popular application to bleeding wounds. It seems probable that both for sacred as well as for medicinal purposes, this grass is often confused with Eragrostis Cynosuroids. Both these grasses are used indiscriminately in compound prescriptions with more powerful drugs in cases of dysentery, menorrhagia, epistaxis etc.
- The Rev. A. Campbell says-A preparation of the grass is applied in parasitic disease which attacks the spaces between toes. This may be same as that which is common in the West Indies caused by Falex Penetrans.
- Civil surgeon Dr. H. Thorton says-The expressed juice is astringent. is used as an application to fresh cuts and wounds. It is also diuretic and is used in cases of anasarca, also as an astringent in the cases of chronic diarrhoea and dysentery.
- Sugeon Major S. M. Houseton says-The juice of the green grass is useful in catarrhal opthalmia as astringent and used also with much benefit in haematemesis.
- Dr. Dayal Ch. Shome of Calcutta found the fresh juice to be a very valuable septic in epistaxis.
- Civil Surgeon Dr. S. Mcconaghey, M. D. says It is anti-periodic and used as an application in scabies.
- Surgeon Major John North, I.M.S. says-The decoction of the root is used in Mysore for the treatment of secondary syphilis
- Dr. T. Ruthman says-I use it with success in irritation of urinary organs.
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- Origin Source Natural
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