DANTI (Root)
Danti consists of dried root of Baliaspermum mantanum Muell.-Arg. (Fam. Euphorbiaceae); a leafy undershrub, distributed in outer range of Himalayas from Kashmir to Assam and in moist deciduous forests elsewhere in India.
SYNONYMS
Sansk. : Danti
Assam. : Danti
Beng. : Danti
Eng. : Wild Croton
Guj. : Danti
Hindi. : Danti
Kan. : Kadu Haralu
Mal. : Neervalam, Dantti
Mar. : Danti
Ori. : Danti
Punj. : Danti
Tam. : Danti
Tel. : Konda Amudamu
Urdu. : Danti
DESCRIPTION
a) Macroscopic
Root pieces almost cylindrical, straight or ribbed with secondary and tertiary roots, 0.2-1 cm thick and upto 10 cm or more in length, tapering at one end, tough, externally brown; surface, rough due to longitudinal striations, transverse cracks and scars of rootlets; internally cream-coloured; transversely smoothened root shows thin, brown bark and yellowish-white central core; taste, bitter.
b) Microscopic
Shows 5-18 layered cork, consisting of brown coloured, suberised or lignified brick-shaped cells, a few cells containing tannin and red colouring matter; secondary cortex consists of 2-7 layers of oval to elliptical, tangentially elongated cells, a few cortical fibres are also present in this region; secondary phloem consists of usual elements, traversed by uni to biseriate phloem rays; secondary xylem consists of usual elements; vessels and tracheids, bordered pits, a few having reticulate thickening; fibres slightly thick-walled, narrow lumen and blunt tips; xylem rays 1 or 2 cells wide; rosette crystals of calcium oxalate and starch grains, present only in secondary cortex and phloem; starch grains solitary and in groups, simple, round to oval measuring 6-17 μ india.
Powder – Brown; shows fragments of cork more or less rectangular, thick-walled in surface view; rosette crystals of calcium oxalate; numerous phloem fibres with narrow lumen and blunt tips, border pitted- and reticulate vessels, tracheid and tannin cells, round to oval simple starch grains measuring 6-17 μ in diameter, and in groupsoccasionally.
IDENTITY, PURITY AND STRENGTH
Foreign matter Not more than 2 Percent Appendix 2.2.2
Total ash Not more than 10 Percent Appendix 2.2.3
Acid-insoluble ash Not more than 3 Percent Appendix 2.2.4
Alcohol-soluble extractive Not less than 1.5 Percent Appendix 2.2.6
Water-soluble extractive Not less than 3 Percent Appendix 2.2.7
T.L.C. –
T.L.C. of the alcoholic extract on Silica gel ‘G’ plate using Toluene: Ethylacetate (9 :1) shows under U.V. (366 nm) a fluorescent zone at Rf 0.65 (blue). On exposure to Iodine vapour two spots appear at Rf 0.51 and 0.65 (both yellow). On spraying with 50% Methanolic-Sulphuric acid reagent and heating the plate for ten minutes at 110°C two spots appear at Rf 0.51 and 0.65 (both grey).
CONSTITUENTS – ß- Sitosterol and Triterpenoids, Resinous Glycosides, Phorbol Esters.
PROPERTIES AND ACTION
Rasa : Katu
Guna : Laghu, Sara, Tiksna
Virya : Usna
Vipaka : Katu
Karma : Sodhaka, Dipana, Kaphahara, Raktadosahara, Vidahara, Rocaka, Vikasi, Vrana
IMPORTANT FORMULATIONS – Dantyadyarista, Punarnava Mandura, Abhayarista, Kankayana Gutika, Dantiharitaki, Kalyanaka Ksara, Kaisora Guggulu
THERAPEUTIC USES – Tvakadosa, Daha, Sotha, Udararoga, Sularoga, Krimi, Arsa, Asmari, Kandu, Kusta, Vrana, Pliha, Vrddhi, Gulma, Kamala
DOSE – 1-3 g. of the drug in powder form.
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