Ajagandha Cleome gynandra strong smelling Ayurvedic medicine
PLACES OF ORIGIN –
Ajagandha consists of the seeds of , a strong smelling, somewhat foetid herb, 0.6 – 1 m high, found abundantly throughout warmer parts of India.
Latin name
- Cleome gynandra
Family
- Capparidaceae
Sanskrit and other SYNONYMS
- Sanskrit : Paugandh¡
- Assamese : Bhutmulla
- Bengali : Hurhuria, Shulte
- English : Dog Mustard
- Malayalam : Atunari vela
- Marathi : Tilvan, Bhatvan, Mabli, Tilavana, Tilvant
- Oriya : Anasorisia, Anasorisa
- Punjabi : Bugra
- Tamil : Nal valai, Nal velai
- Telugu : Vaminta, Vayinta
- Gujrati : Talvani, Dhelitalavan
- Hindi : Hulhul, Hurhur, Kavalia
- Kannada : Naram bele Soppu, Nayeetulasi
- Kashmiri : Gandi Buti
Modern Classification —
- Kingdom Plantae – Plants
- Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
- Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
- Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
- Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
- Subclass Dilleniidae
- Order Capparales
- Family Capparaceae – Caper family
- Genus Cleome L. – spiderflower
- Species Cleome gynandra L. – spiderwisp
DESCRIPTION
- Seeds, small, 1-2 mm in diameter, kidney shaped, surface rough, dark brown or black.
- Woody Dark brown, oily; under microscope shows a number of fragments of epidermis of testa consisting of thin-walled, resembling like stone cells, polygonal cells; groups of cells, reddish-brown with non-lignified walls; starch and crystals absent. a large number of oval, rounded or irregularly shaped protein bodies;CONSTITUENTS –
- Fixed oil,
- essential oil and oleoresin
PROPERTIES AND ACTION
- Rasa
- Katu
- Guna :
- Laghu,
- Ruksha
- Virya :
- sheet
- Vipaka :
- Katu
Function or Karma , Ayurveda
- Hirdya,
- Dipana,
- Vatahara,
- Pittala,
IMPORTANT FORMULATIONS –
- Narayan churan
THERAPEUTIC USES –
- Gulma,
- krami rog,
- kandu(some itaching),
- asthila (prostate),
- karn roga
DOSE – Ayurveda drugs
- 1-3 g of the drug in powder form.