MUTRAVAHA SAMSTHANA(URINARY SYSTEM)

PUNARNAVA

Latin name????? : Boerhavia diffusa

??????????????????????? ? Boerhavia – name of a discoverer

??????????????????????? ? Diffusa- which spreads or widely spreading.

Family???????????? : Nyctaginaceae, nyx- blooming at night.

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English name?? : Spreading hog weed.

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Sanskrit names: shophagni, pravrishenya.

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Gana vargeekarana:

Charaka??????????? : Vayasthapana, kasahara, swedopaga, anuvasanopaga

Sushruta?????????? : Vidarigandhadi

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Botanical description:

A perennial creeper, 0.75-1m in length. Sometimes grows up to 4mtrs in rainy seasons and dries in summer.

Leaves: opposite, 2.5-4cm long, fleshy with soft hairs, whitish ventrally.

Flowers: small, pink coloured,

Fruits: 1cm long, round or circular, containing seeds like cow’s beans.

Root: twisted on drying.

Flowering and fruiting during winter.

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Chemical composition:

b- sitosterol, punarnavine, punarnavoside, oxalic acid.

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Guna karma:

Rasa- Madhura, tikta, kashaya??????????????????????????? Guna- Laghu, ruksha

Veerya- Ushna?????????????????????????????????????????????????? Vipaka- Katu

Dosha karma: Tridosha hara

Karma: Shothahara, deepana

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Indications: Shotha (edema), pandu (anemia), udara (abdomen), hridroga (heart), shwasa (breathing).

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Urinary system:

Diuretic by increasing renal blood flow.