TRIBULOUS TERRESTRIS--FOR TESTOSTERONE--A MALE HORMONE
Botanical name-Tribulous
terrestris Linn
Family—Zygophyllaceae
Common names
Bengali—Gokhru
English--Calthrops
French—Croix
de chevalier
Hindi—Gokhru,
Gokshri
Malayalam—Neringil
Sanskrit—Bahukantaka,
Gokhura, Ikshugandha
Tamil—Nerunji,
Sirunerinji
Telugu—Chirupalleru,
Palleru.
Occurrence and Distribution—It is found in dry soils
of waste places , road sides, and deserts. Tribulus is distributed throughout
the warmer regions of India including West Rajasthan and Gujarat. Also found
other warm regions of the world.
Description- A small hirsute , or silky, prostrate, annual
herb. Stem recumbent , pubescent, branching to 1yd length . The root when fresh is slender ,
fibrous, cylindrical and of a light brown color. Leaves stipulate, opposite,
usually unequal, abruptly pinnate. Leaflets 4-7 pairs, 6-12 mm long, oblong
mucronate with appressed hairs beneath and more or less so on the upper
surface, base rounded, oblique, entire, almost sessile or with very short
petioles. Petiole very short, pilose. Flowers solitary , axillary or
leaf-opposed, yellow or white, 0.8 to 1.5 cm in diameter. ; pedicels slender
and hairy . Sepals 5, free , 6mm long, lanceolate, acute and hairy. Petals 5,
free, golden –yellow, 10 mm long, obovate, rounded at the apex. Stamens 10 ,
inserted at the base of an annular looked disc, filaments free. Ovary sessile,
hairy, 5-celled, style short, stigma five lobed. Fruit globose, 5 angled,
spinous, tuberculate, schizocarp, consisting of usually 5 hairy or nearly
glabrous , often muriculate, woody cocci, 2 long and 2 short spines on each
cocci. Seeds several on each coccus with transverse partition between them .
Seeds are oily and enclosed in hard
stony cells. Taste astringent and it is agreeable
Flowers and fruits appear
during April –August.
Part used---Whole
plant
Chemical constituents-- -
Tribulus consists of mainly glycosides and saponins. Chlorogenin, diosgenin, and its acetate,
gitogenin, astragalin, dioscin, gracillin, harman, hecogenin, ruscogenin,
trillin, furostanol glycoside, spirosternol saponin, and a dihydroxy
spirosteroidal sapogenin, terrestrodsise F along with saponins Cand G,
kaempferol, glucose, rhamnose, rutin, harmine. Neogitogenin , quercetin and
reducing sugars; campesterol, beta sitosterol stigmasterol, and neotigogenin.
HOMOEOPATHIC USES--—Tribulous balance the level of testosterone hormone which gives
men mastery in sexual performance , and is vital for libido, muscle growth and
generating male energy confidence and stamina. It can increase the amount of
Luteinizing hormone, produced by the pituitary gland. LH stimulates the testes to secrete more
testosterone, the male hormone.
The diuretic property of
the drug is well marked. It is useful in urinary affections , especially
dysuria and in debilitated states of the sexual organs, as expressed in seminal
weakness , ready emissions, and improverished semen, prostatitis , calculous
affections and sexual neurasthenia. Partial impotence due to overindulgence of
advancing age or when accompanied by urinary symptoms, incontinence, painful
micturition etc. It is a good remedy for dysuria, impotency, masturbation,
prostatitis, sexual weakness and spermatorrhea.
Prescribed dose—10 to 20 drops of the tincture three
times daily.
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