BOTANICAL NAME: Cissampelos pareira Linn
FAMILY: Menispermaceae
CLASSICAL CLASSIFICATION:
Charaka- Sandhãniya, Jvarahara, Stanyasödhana
Susrutha- Mustãdi, Aragvadhadi, Pippalyadi, Ambasthadi, Brahatyadi, Patolädi
Vagbhata- Mustadi, Aragvadhadi, Ambasthdi, Patolädi, Vatsakãdi
Bhavprakasha- Guduchyadi varga
COMMON NAME:
English : Velvet-Leaf Pareira, PareiraBrava.
Malayalam : malathaghi
Tamil : Paadakkizhangu, Appatta.
Unani : Paathaa
PLANT IMAGE with Unique Identification Feature:
REFERENCE: BHAVAPRAKASH SAMHITA with link e Nighantu:
https://niimh.nic.in/ebooks/e-Nighantu/bhavaprakashanighantu/?mod=read
पाठोष्णा कटुका तीक्ष्णा वातश्लेष्महरी लघुः ।
हन्ति शूलज्वरच्छर्दिकुष्ठातीसारहृद्रुजः ।
दाहकण्डू विषश्वासकृमिगुल्मगरव्रणान् ॥
HABITAT: All over India
BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION:
It is a climbing shrub; branches pubescent. Leaves are peltate, 3.8-10 cm diameter. Flowers are minute, yellowish. Male flowers in axillary cymes, peduncle 18mm long. Sepals 4, hairy, obovate- oblong. Petals combined into a cyathiform corolla, half the length of the sepals. Filaments longer than Corolla. Female flowers in elongate, solitary or twin, axillary racemes; pedicles very short; bracts foliaceous or nearly sessile, orbicular or reniform. Sepal 1, ovate-oblong. Petal 1, sub rotund. Fruit drupe, subglobose, hairy, red, endocarp transversely ridged.
AYURVEDIC CHARACTERISTICS:
| RASA | GUNA | VEERYA | VIPAKA | PRABHAVA | DOSHGHNTA |
| Tikta | Laghu, teekshna | Ushna | Katu | Kaphavata har |
AYURVEDIC ENERGETICS:
| TASTE | PROPERTY | POTENCY | POST DIGESTIVE EFFECT | EFFECT ACTION | DOSHA ACTION |
| Sweet | Lightness,
Piercing |
Hot | Pungent | Pacifying kapha and vata |
MAJOR CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS: Hayatine, methiodide and methochloride, cissamine, pareirine, cycleanine,bebeerine, hayatidin, (+) quercitol
THERAPEUTIC USES:
- ArthaVabhedaka – Root juice of Pãtha shall be used as Nasya (G.N.)
- Lavanameha— Decoction of Pãthã and Aguru is useful (S.S.Ci. 11)
- Arsas— Pãthã is taken with butter-milk (A.H.Ci.8)
- Root paste is applied topically on scabies and eruptions on the body.
INDICATIONS:
Atisãra(Diarrhoea), Chardi(Vomiting), süla(Pain), Jvara (Fever), Kustha (Skin disorders), Kandü(Worm infestations), Yöni röga(Vaginal disorders).
USEFUL PART: Root
DOSAGE: 1-2 gm
AYURVEDIC FORMULATION:
1. Pusyanuga curna
2. Saddharana yoga
3. Padathi kashaya