Thursday 21 June 2018

Justicia adhatoda. Kader Kochi.

Synonyms


Vasaka, Vasa, Vishnu, Basaka, Adalodakum, Malabar nut, Arusa, Justicia adhatoda vasica, Adusa, Bansa hara.


Constituents

Perennial evergreen plant. Height meters. Flowers are white. Leaves, root, and bark. Plant contains vasicine, vasicinolone, sulphur, acetyl- benzylamine, quinazoline, phenolics, tannins, saponins, and sterols. Bitter.


Therapeutics

This is bronchial mucolytic, and expectorant medicine.

It has anti-microbial, anti -bacterial, anti-viral, anti -inflammatory, anti-hypertensive, and anti-spasmodic properties.

It is medicine for productive cough, asthma, and haemoptysis (Ipecac, Millefolium).

It is medicine for chest congestion.

It is medicine for diabetes, and hyperglycaemia.

It is medicine for acute dysentery.

It is medicine for dysfunctional uterine bleeding.

Flowers are medicine for intestinal worm infestation, and thrombocythemia.

It is remedy for autism, and depression.

It is remedy for upper and lower respiratory tract infections.

It is remedy for amenorrhoea.

It is remedy for peptic ulcer (Glycyrrhiza).

It is remedy for renal insufficiency with high blood urea level.

It is remedy for renal fibrosis (Sulphur).

It is remedy for gout, and uric acid disorder.

It is remedy for fracture.

It is remedy for muscular dystrophy (Allium sativa- Acetylcysteine).

It is remedy for low platelet count (Flower).

It is a medicine that facilitates childbirth.

It is medicine externally for ringworm.

It has para sympathomimetic properties.

Wood had been used for manufacture of charcoal (Carbo vegetabilis).

It had been used as fish poison. 

It had been used as repellent to ants, flies and mosquito.

It had been considered as a panacea.


Dose

2 to 10 drops.

Dilution.




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