Ikshu

BOTANICAL NAME: Saccharum officinarum

FAMILY: Graminae

 

CLASSICAL CLASSIFICATION-

CHARAKA- Ikshu Varga, TrinPanchmoola

SUSHRUTA- Ikshu Varga

BHAVPRAKASH- Ikshu Varga

ENGLISH NAME: Sugar cane

Sanskrit name: Asipatra, Gudamula, Trnarasa, TrunaRaja, Deerghachada, Madhutrina, Gudadaru, Gudamoola, Maharasa, BhooriRasa, Surasa, Poundraka, Venu, Vmaha, Sukumara, Sthulosipatraka, Gandiri, Gandaki.

Hindi name: ikh, ganna

Punjabi name: Ganna

REFERENCE: BHAVAPRAKASH SAMHITA with link e Nighantu:

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

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HABITAT: generally cultivated in hotter parts of the country for extraction of sugar.

BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION: A tall perennial grass with culms of varying thickness and colour ranging from pale or dark green to dark yellow often striped. Leaves are long, narrow, erect or drooping. Inflorescence is large and plumose. The sugarcane plant produces a number of stalks that reach 3 to 7 metres (10 to 24 feet) high and bear long sword-shaped leaves.

MAJOR CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS: Albumin, Calcium oxalate.

THERAPEUTIC USES:

• Cane Juice is advised in Constipation.
• Cane Juice is advised in elevated levels of bilirubin.
• Useful in Epistaxis, Hematemesis
• Helpful in Aphrodiasic Action.
• In case of stanya kshyay has galactogogue.

INDICATIONS-

Grahani IBS, Vibandha Constipation, Kaamla Jaundice, Pandu Anaemia, Mootrakrichra Dysuria, Kaasa Cough, Swasa Asthma.

USEFUL PART: moola(root), stem sharkara, swaras

DOSAGE: 15-30 gm in decoction form

AYURVEDIC FORMULATION:

1. Trinpanchmool kwatha
2. Bala Taila
3. Navratnarajmriganka rasa
4. Drakshadya Ghruta
5. Vasant Kusumakar Ras
6. Raktpittantaka loha
7. PanchNimba Choorna
8. Musali Churna
9. Vasantatilaka Rasa
10. Samasharkara Churna.