Synonyms
Vasaka,
Vasa, Vishnu, Basaka, Adalodakum, Malabar nut, Arusa, Justicia adhatoda vasica,
Adusa, Bansa hara.
Constituents
Perennial evergreen plant. Height 4 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.