Bakuchi

BOTANICAL NAME: Psoralea corylifolia

FAMILY: Paplionaceae

 

CLASSICAL CLASSIFICATION:

Charaka: Tikta Skanda

Bhavaprakash: Haritkyadi Varga

 

ENGLISH NAME: Psoralea Seeds

COMMON NAME: Bakuchi

Hindi: Babchi, Bavachi, Bakuchi

Punjabi: Babchi, Bavchi

Bengali: Bakuchi, Somraji, Hakucha Veeja

Kannada: Bauchige, Bhavantibeeja, Bhavanchigid, Baukuchi

REFERENCE: BHAVAPRAKASH SAMHITA with link e Nighantu:

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

बाकुची

अवल्गुजो बाकुची स्यात्सोमराजी सुपर्णिका |

शशिलेखा कृष्णफला सोमा पूतिफलीति च |

सोमवल्ली कालमेषी कुष्ठघ्नी च प्रकीर्तिता ||१८०||

बाकुची मधुरा तिक्ता कटुपाका रसायनी |

विष्टम्भहृद्धिमा रुच्या सरा श्लेष्मास्रपित्तनुत् |

रूक्षा हृद्या श्वासकुष्ठमेहज्वरकृमिप्रणुत् ||१८१||

तत्फलं पित्तलं कुष्ठकफानिलहरं कटु |

केश्यं त्वच्यं कृमिश्वासकासशोथामपाण्डुनुत् ||१८२||

HABITAT: Consists of dry ripe fruits, an erect, 0.3-1.8 m high annual herb, distributed throughout India, found commonly in Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and Maharashtra.

BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION:

Fruits, dark chocolate to almost black with pericarp adhering to the seed-coat,3-4.5 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, ovoid-oblong or bean shaped, some what compressed, glabrous rounded or mucronate, closely pitted, seeds campylotropous, non-endospermous, oily and free from starch, odourless, but when chewed smell of a pungent essential oil felt, taste, bitter, unpleasant and acrid. Flowering and fruiting in April to May

MAJOR CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS: Essential oil, fixed oil, Psoralen, psoralidin, isopsoralen and bakuchiol.

THERAPEUTIC USES:

• Vitiligo: Bakuchi oil is applied externally.
• Diuretic: Seeds are used internally.
• Anemia: Fruit of bakuchi is used in anemia.

INDICATION:

Jwara fever, Krimiroga worm infection, Kushta leprosy, Meha fat disorder.

USEFUL PART: Biija

DOSAGE: Churn -2 -3 gm

AYURVEDIC FORMULATION:

1. Bakuchi rasayan,
2. Somraji rasayan,
3. Bakuchi tail