Desmodium gangeticum (L.)

Sc.name- Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC.

Family- Fabaceae

Syns👉Desmodium maculatum (L.) DC.

              Pleurolobus gangeticus (L.)

              Meibomia gangetica (L.) Kuntze 

              Hedsarum gangeticum L. f.

              Desmodium natalitium Sond.

Common name 🌿Tick tree, flax weed, salvan, dinth, anshumati, sharpani and vidarigandha.

🍀It is an important ngrediant of Ayurvedic medicine.Such as chyabanprash, amritarishta, dasmoolarishta, dasmoola kvatha, narayana taila and amritaprasha ghrita.

Useful parts▶roots, whole plant and aerial parts.

🔬Phytochemicals constituents:

Pterocarpans, phospholipids, flavonoids, sterols, glycosides, hordenine, caudicine, beta- phenylethylamine, gangetin, desmolin,kievtone,

diphysolone & decarboxylated typtamine.

⏩Medicinal uses anti inflammatory, diuretic, diarrhoea, dysentery, chronic fever, cough, loss of appetite, gallbladder & kidney stones, angina pectoris, asthma, vomiting, headache, swelling, toothache, biliousness, wounds, nervine tonic, aphrodisiac, rejuvenating, seminal weakness, urinary disorders, tuberculosis, cardiac tonic, opthalmic disorders and helminthiasis.