HERBAL GARDEN
Vivek college of Ayurvedic Sciences & Hospital Bijnor UP
भारंगी
Classification
चरक-
सुश्रुत- पिप्पल्यादि गण
भावप्रकाश-
Synoyms
भार्डी- भनक्ति रोगान्, भार्गोऽस्त्यस्मात् इति वा । भज्जो आमर्दने ।
It destroys the diseases. It is bestowed with power equivalent to Sun.
ब्राह्मणयष्टिका- the stem is very thin
पद्मा - flower resembles that of lotus
खरयष्टिका- leaves are dry
वातारि- an enemy of vata dosa
कासघ्नी- which alleviates cough
Habit
It is a perennial woody shrub up to 3–8 ft in height with blunt quadrangular stems.
Habitat
यह पौधा पूरे उष्णकटिबंधीय और उपोष्णकटिबंधीय भागों में विशेष रूप से बंगाल, ओडिशा और प्रायद्वीपीय भारत में 1500 मीटर तक झाड़ीदार जंगलों में पाया जाता है।
Morphology
- Leaves are compound (usually three at the node), arranged oppositely, narrowly obovate to oblong with serrate margin, glabrous surface, acute apex and stout petioles.
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Flowers are blue with many long cylindrical thyrsus and flowering occur in the month of August–September.
- They are bisexual, zygomorphic and rarely sub-actinomorphic and bracteolate.
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Fruits are glabrous drupes with 5–14 mm length and 5–8 mm width and usually separating into pyrenes at maturity.
- Seeds are four lobed and oblong.
Chemical Composition
Hispidulin, serratagenic acid, verbascoside, clerodermic acid, clerosterol.
Guna-Karma
Rasa- कटु, तिक्त
Guna- लघु, रूक्ष
Virya- उष्ण
Vipaka- कटु
Karma- श्वासहर
Doshakarma- कफवात शामक
Medicinal uses
गुल्म
रक्तदोष
शोथ
कास
श्वास
Useful Part
Root
Doses
चूर्ण (3-6 gm)
Important Formulation
भारंग्यादि क्वाथ
भारंगी गुड
तिलादि क्वाथ
वासावलेह
पुष्करमूलासव
Shloka
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(भावप्रकाश निघन्टु हरीतक्यादिवर्ग)
Hindi Name
नीलकलमी (Neelkalmi)
English Name
Blue glory
Botanical Name
Clerodendrum serratum (L.) Moon
Family
Verbinaceae