CINCA (Fruit Pulp)

Cinca consists of fruit pulp without seeds of Tamarindus indica Linn. (Fam. Fabacem), a moderate sized to large evergreen tree upto 24 m in height and 7 m in girth, cultivated throughout India, or self sown in waste places and in forest lands; also planted as avenue trees

SYNONYMS

Sanskrit : Amlika, Tintidika
Assamese : Tamar, Teteli
Bengali : Tetula, Tentul, Ambli
English : Tamarind Tree
Gujrati : Anvali
Hindi : Imli
Kannada : Hunisemale
Kashmiri : —
Malayalam : Puli, Amlam
Marathi : Chinch
Oriya : Koina, Omlika
Punjabi : Imli, Amli
Tamil : Puli, Aanvilam
Telugu : Chint, Chinta
Urdu : Imli

DESCRIPTION

a) Macroscopic

Fruit pulp occurs as a reddish-brown, moist, sticky mass, in which yellowishbrown fibres are readily seen; odour, pleasant; taste, sweetish and acidic.

b) Microscopic

Fruit pulp consists of thin-walled, elongated to polygonal, parenchymatous cells of considerable size, traversed by a number of long fibro-vascular bundles and having a very few small starch granules, and numerous prismatic crystals of calcium oxalate.

IDENTITY, PURITY AND STRENGTH

Foreign matter Not more than 1 per cent, Appendix 2.2.2.
Total Ash Not more than 4 per cent, Appendix 2.2.3.
Acid-insoluble ash Not more than 0.5 per cent, Appendix 2.2.4.
Alcohol-soluble extractive Not less than 46 per cent, Appendix 2.2.6.
Water-soluble extractive Not less than 59 per cent, Appendix 2.2.7.

T.L.C.

T.L.C. of alcoholic extract on Silica Gel ‘G’ using n-Butanol : Acetic acid : Water (5:1:4) shows under U.V. (366 nm) two spots at Rf. 0.27 and 0.46 (both yellowish blue). On exposure to Iodine vapour five spots appear at Rf. 0.27, 0.46, 0.57, 0.65 and 0.87 (all yellow). On spraying with 5% Methanolic-Sulphuric acid reagent and heating the plate at 105°C for ten minutes five spots appear at Rf. 0.46, 0.57. 0.65, 0.71 and 0.87 (all grey)

CONSTITUENTS – Inorganic acids, Sugars, Saponin and bitter principle – Tamarindinca

PROPERTIES AND ACTION

Rasa : Madhura, Amla, Kasaya
Guna : Guru, Ruksa, Sara
Virya : Usna
Vipaka : Amla
Karma : Kaphavatanut, Dipana, Bastisuddhikara, Bhedi, Vistambhi, Dipana, Hrdya

IMPORTANT FORMULATIONS – Sankha Dravaka, Sankhavati

THERAPEUTIC USES – Udararoga, Agnimandya, Arocaka, Paktisula, Trsa, Klama, Srama, Bhranti, Karnasula, Nadivrana

DOSE – 4-10 g of the drug

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