Meshashringi

BOTANICAL NAME: Gymnema sylvestre

FAMILY: Asclepiadaceae

CLASSICAL CLASSIFICATION:

Bhavaprakash: Guduchyadi varga

ENGLISH NAME: Cow plant

COMMON NAME:

Hindi: Gudmaar

Bengali: Medhasingi

Tamil: Shirukurum Kaay, Shakkaraikkolli

Kannada: Kadhasige

REFERENCE: BHAVAPRAKASH SAMHITA with link e Nighantu:

https://niimh.nic.in/ebooks/e-Nighantu/bhavaprakashanighantu/?mod=read

मेषशृङ्गी विषाणी स्यान्मेषवल्ल्यजशृङ्गिका |

मेषशृङ्गी रसे तिक्ता वातला श्वासकासहृत् |

रूक्षा पाके कटुस्तिक्ता व्रणश्लेष्माक्षिशूलनुत् ||२१६||

मेषशृङ्गीफलं तिक्तं कुष्ठमेहकफप्रणुत् |

दीपनं स्रंसनं कासकृमिव्रणविषापहम् ||२१७||

HABITAT: Central and Peninsular India.

BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION: It is stout, large woody climber. Young stem and leaves and pubescent. Leaves are ovate, elliptic, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers are peduncle cymes sometimes producing umbles or whorls of flowers, corolla-yellow. Fruit is rigid, lanceolate, attenuated into a beak. Seeds are 0.5 inch long, ovate, oblong, flat.

MAJOR CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS: Gymnemagenin, Quereitol, Gymnemine, Gymnemagenin

THERAPEUTIC USES:

• Skin diseases – The paste of the leaf is applied over the affectedSnake poisoning area.
• Diabetes –The powder of the dried leaf (4 to 6 g) or fresh juice (25-30 ml) of leaf is given to reduce the sugar level in the blood.
• Snake poisoning- The fresh juice of the root of the plant is given in a dose of 25-30 ml.
• Cough- The powder of the seed of Meshashringi is given with honey.
• Dysmenorrhea-The decoction of the Meshashringi is given in a dose of 40-50 ml.

INDICATIONS:

Shwasa Asthma, Kasa Cough, Shoola Abdomen colic, Dantkrimi Dental caries, Hridroga Cardiac disorders, Kustha Skin disorders, Prameha Diabetes.

USEFUL PART: Root, leaves.

DOSAGE: 3-6 gm powder

AYURVEDIC FORMULATION:

1. Ayaskriti
2. Nyagrodhadi Churna,
3. Maha Vishagarbha Taila
4. Mritasanjeevani Sura