MADHUSNUHI (Tuberous Root)
Madhusnuhi consists of tuberous root of Smilax china Linn. (Fam. Liliacem), a deciduous climber with sparsely prickled or unarmed stem. It is imported from China and Japan.
SYNONYMS
Sanskrit : Dvipantara Vaca
Assamese : —
Bengali : Chopcheenee, Kumarika, Shukchin
English : China root
Gujrati : Chopcheenee
Hindi : Chopcheenee
Kannada : —
Kashmiri : —
Malayalam : China Pairu
Marathi : Chopcheenee
Oriya : —
Punjabi : —
Tamil : Parangichekkai
Telugu : Pirngichekka
Urdu : —
DESCRIPTION
a) Macroscopic
Tubers about 6 to 12 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, rough, irregular, cylindrical, curved, slightly tapering with brownish or blackish scars; externally brownish-yellow in colour, and internally brown in colour; fracture, hard; odour not characteristic; taste, slightly bitter.
b) Microscopic
Cortex shows several layers of thin-walled, polygonal, elongated mucilaginous parenchymatous cells, a few cells containing raphides of calcium oxalate; endodermis not distinguished; ground tissue having several vascular bundles consisting of usual elements; fibres long and aseptate; numerous simple and compound starch grains, measuring 16 to 38 n in dia. with 2 to more than 9 components mostly spherical to ovoid, having hilum in centre.
Powder : Shows light brown, fragments of mucilaginous parenchymatous cells of cortex fibres and vessels with reticulate thickening; a few scattered needles of calcium oxalate from raphides; numerous simple and compound starch grains measuring 16 to 38 n in dia. with 2 to more than 9 components, mostly spherical to ovoid having hilum in centre.
IDENTITY, PURITY AND STRENGTH
Foreign matter Not more than 2 per cent, Appendix 2.2.2.
Total Ash Not more than 0.6 per cent, Appendix 2.2.3.
Acid-insoluble ash Not more than 0.006per cent, Appendix 2.2.4.
Alcohol-soluble extractive Not less than 0.8 per cent, Appendix 2.2.6.
Water-soluble extractive Not less than 5 per cent, Appendix 2.2.7.
T.L.C.
T.L.C. of the alcoholic extract on precoated Silica gel ‘G’ plate (0.2 mm thick) using Toluene : Ethyl acetate : Methanol (10 : 10 : 4) as mobile phase and on spraying with Anisaldehyde-Sulphuric acid reagent and heating the plate at 105oC for ten minutes ten spots appear at Rf. 0.09 (dark green), 0.17 (violet), 0.21 (dirty yellow), 0.26 (grey), 0.32 (yellow), 0.48, 0.55 and 0.58 (all violet), 0.73 (greenish blue) and 0.77 (violet).
CONSTITUENTS – Saponins, sarsaponin and parallin, which yield isomeric sapogenins, sarsapogenin and smilogenin. It also contains sitosterol and stigmasterol in the free form and as glucosides.
PROPERTIES AND ACTION
Rasa : Tikta
Guna : Laghu, Ruksa
Virya : Usna
Vipaka : Katu
Karma : Sothahara, Sukrasodhaka, Dipana, Mutrala, Raktasodhaka, Rasayana, Tridosahara, Vrsya, Vedanasthapana, Nadibalya, Anulomana, Svedajanana
IMPORTANT FORMULATIONS – Madhusnuhi Rasayana, Copacinyadi Curna
THERAPEUTIC USES – Sula, Apasmara, Adhmana, Gandamala, Krmi, Kustha, Puyameha, Sandhivata, Unmada, Vibandha, Sukravikara, Vatavyadi, Phiranga, Kampavata
DOSE – 3-6 g powder.
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