FICUS INDICA

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FICUS INDICA (Banyan tree) Plant Introduction: Ficus is a vast genus of trees or shrubs with alterriate usually entire thick leaves and monoecious flowers collected in a pear shaped hollow receptacle, which in the cultivated fig is the part eaten. This tree grown in different parts of India parti...

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FICUS INDICA (Banyan tree) Plant Introduction: Ficus is a vast genus of trees or shrubs with alterriate usually entire thick leaves and monoecious flowers collected in a pear shaped hollow receptacle, which in the cultivated fig is the part eaten. This tree grown in different parts of India particularly in the forest and found in West Bengal plentifully.. There is a 200 year old huge banyan tree at the Botanical Gardens, Shibpore, Howrah. The lateral branching is generally cymose or definite with scally buds; scale leaves are covered with bud scale, area Modified adventitious roots for mechanical function descend radially from the branches and take up the form of pillars which are known as proproots,-help in spreading and strengthening the tree. The bark is 1/2 inch thich, grayish in co...

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FICUS INDICA

(Banyan tree)

Plant Introduction:

Ficus is a vast genus of trees or shrubs with alterriate usually entire thick leaves and monoecious flowers collected in a pear shaped hollow receptacle, which in the cultivated fig is the part eaten. This tree grown in different parts of India particularly in the forest and found in West Bengal plentifully.. There is a 200 year old huge banyan tree at the Botanical Gardens, Shibpore, Howrah. The lateral branching is generally cymose or definite with scally buds; scale leaves are covered with bud scale, area
Modified adventitious roots for mechanical function descend radially from the branches and take up the form of pillars which are known as proproots,-help in spreading and strengthening the tree. The bark is 1/2 inch thich, grayish in colour. Wood is grayish-white and light. Leaves are hairy and ovated. Margin is entire; apex is obtuse. By deliberating the phyllotaxy, we see that leaves are alternate (pentastichous) having unicostate and reticulate venation. There are 3-5 veins per leaf blade each of which is 4-8 inches in size. Stalk is 1.2 inch long; fruits are round, soft and Fructification hairy become raddish when they ripe. happens in summer and fruits ripe in rainy season,

Name:

In Sanskrit-Nagrodh; 
Bengali-Batgachh; 
Hindi-Bargat, Barh: 
Marathi-Badh, Bat; Oriya-Boroo; 
Gujrati-Barh; 
Telegu Marichetu, Mari; 
Tamil-Aall; Arab-Djatud-bayee, Bot aaz.; 
English and Latin-Ficus Indica.
 
Family: Urticaceae. (Many say Moraceae)
Time of collection: Autumn.
Chemical Composition: There is a considerable amount of Tannin in the bark.
 
Physio-Chemical action:
The bitter principle is refrigerant, astringent, anti-bilious and febrifuge. It pacify the cause of irritation and removes gonorrhoea, boils and dropsy; also allays thirst.
External application of the gum is useful in rheumatism; decoction of the bark gives relief in diarrhoea and that of the seeds-refrigerant. Leaves may be used as poultice in boils or eruption.

Opinions of different physicians:

  1. Charak: The drug may be administered in the cases of haematemesis, blood dysentery, boils and leucorrhoea.
  2. Shusrut: in haematemesis.
  3. Chakradutta: in diarrhoea.
  4. Bangasen: in menorrhagia.

Symptomps

Mind: Reddened face owing to haématemesis; hates people; nausea; scarlet vomit of blood (Acalypha Ind.) attended with cough and rattling at throat.
Blood gonorrhoea Bloody flux attended with naosea cough; pain spreads from navel to uterus.
 
Therapeutic uses:
The gum relieves rheumatism and neuralgia. It is also useful in the cases of burns and cuts. The bark extract is a strengthening agent and removes diabetes. The boil cracks when baked leaf is applied on it as poultice. The use of root in the treatment of gonorrhoeal diseases is prevalent in Punjab. Rubbing the gum on cracked skin of the body is useful in winter (Dymock).

Dose:

5-15 minims thrice or four times a day.
 

Remedy Profile

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