Botanical name – Sesbania grandiflora Linn.
Family - papilionatae
Hindi name - Agasta
Sanskrit names: Agastya, munidrum, vangsen, vakrapusp, Munivriksha.
Botanical description -
Sesbania grandiflora is a fast growing tree, 20 to 30 fit long. The bark
is light , wood white and soft.
Leaf long and similarly albizzia lebbeck, leaflets linear oblong, glabrous. Flowers large, white
or red, 5-7.5 cm. long, pods 30.5 cm. long, curved, pendulous.
Flowering and fruiting time February to March . cold and spring season.
In classical texts of materia medica (raja nighantus) ; Verieties and Fourkinds of plant based
on flowers colour .
1)white (sveta), 2)yellow (pita), 3) blue (nila) 4) red (rakta)
Habitat - Plant is found in Bengal, Southern India and Gangetic regions. It is abundantly found
in Burma. Culti vated in various provinces i.e. Assam, Gujarat and Kerala.
Pharmacodynamics -
Guna (qualities) - ruksha(dryness), laghu(lightness)
Rasa- tikta(bitter)
Vipak - katu ( undergoes pungent taste conversion after digestion )
Veerya- sheeta (cold potency)
Properties and action – Doshkrama - kapha-pita shamak
Karma : Sothahara, Vranasodhana-ropana, Bhutaghna, Sirovirechana
Caksusya , Medhya, Dipana-anulomana, Krmighna , Grahi-Shoolaprasamana, Ślesmaniḥsaraka-
Svedajanana, tvachya, visphotaghna, Jvaraghna, Visaghna, Raktapittasamaka.
Therapeutic uses – Agastya is anti-histaminic, astringent, febrifuge, tonic, Laxative,
expectorant, antiphlogistic, wound healer and brain tonic, in general.
Externally use - roots and bark pest is applied gout, rheumatic and inflammed joints.
Leaf pest - is applied over wounds.
Internally use - Juice of leaf is used as snuff in coryza, headache, influenza and cough-cold
fever, as well as in epilepsy for countering unconsciousness and epileptic
attack.
Flowers juice is dropped in eyes for check nightblindness and sight-weakness,
also promoting vision.
Agastya is useful in all types of fevers, periodic fever, small pox, poisoning, biliousness and
general debility.
Pachana-sansthana - Flowers and leaf are useful in worms, constipation and loss of appetite,
forms of vegetable and juice.
Bark juice is given in diarrhoea, and abdominal colic, and also gastro-intestinal disorders.
Shwasan – sansthana - Juice of bark mixed with honey is used in cough, coryza , rhinitis, lungs
inffections, chest complaints, bronchitis and cough fever, includeing acute cough.
Parajanana-sansthana - Flowers are used in leucorrhoea and plant is useful in gonorrohea and
uro-genital complaints.
Chemical Composition- Bark contains – tannin and red colour resin
Flower contains – Methyl oleanolate
Seeds contains - kaempferol, leucocyanidin.
Parts used - Whole plant, flowers, leaves, bark, roots and fruits.
Dose - powder- 5 to 10gm, Juice – 10 to20ml, decoction – 50 to 100 ml
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