HOMOEOPATHIC USES OF TERMINALIA ARJUNA
Botanical name--- Terminalia arjuna ( Roxb. ) W & A
Family -- Combretaceae
Common names
Bengali- Arjun
English -- Arjun
Hindi --`Arjun
Malayalam-- Arjuna
Sanskrit -- Arjun
Tamil -- Vellamatta
Occurrence &
Distribution
Common on the banks of rivers
, streams, and dry water courses in sub Himalayan tract, Central and
South India and West
Bengal . Also planted for shade or ornament in avenues or
parks
Description
A large tree, 20-25 m high,
with often buttressed trunk, smooth grey bark., and drooping branchlets. Leaves
subopposite , hard, coriaceous, oblong or elliptic, 10 – 20 cm long. Flowers
yellowish- white, borne in shortly panicled spikes. Fruits 2.5- 5 cm long,
obovoid-oblong, with 5-7 equal , hard, coriaceous , thick narrow wings, their
striations curing much upwards
Flowers in March- June and
fruits in September – November
Part used
Fruits, leaves, bark
Chemical constituents
Alicylic and amino acids and
polypols. Arachidic stearate, cerasidin, hendriacontane, myristyl oleate,
mannitol, b- sitosterol, friedelin, methl oleanolate, ellagic and gallic acids,
arjunic acids, arjunone, tannin, arjunetin, baicalein, arjunolone,
arjunglucosides 1 & 11, arjunolic acids , saponins, leucocyanidin
Therapeutic uses
Fruits- deobstruent and tonic
Leaves- juice used in earache, externally used as a cover on sores and
ulcers
Bark—antidysenteric, antipyretic,
astringent, cardiotonic, lithotriptic, styptic and tonic, powder acts as a
diuretic in cirrhosis of liver and gives relief in symptomatic hypertension
HOMOEOPATHIC USES—
HEART- Diseases of the heart, both organic and functional . Angina
pectoris, weakness and pain in the heart. Suffocation, vertigo
FRACTURE- In fractures , pain all over the body owing to a fall and all
sorts of ecchymosis the action of this drug in such cases is supreme
SPERMATORRHOEA- It is also effective in spermatorrhoea
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