Menispermaceae (ဆင္တံုးမႏြယ္)

Tinospora cordifolia Miers.

Menispermaceae

Myanmar name : Hsindon ma nwe (ဆင္တံုးမႏြယ္)

English name : Heart-leaved Moon seed

Description

A large climber, bark corky, pendulous fleshy roots arise from the branches, with tubercled. Leaves alternate, entire, membranous, cordate. Inflorescence racemes; males fascicled, females usually solitary; flowers yellow. Fruit drupe, yellow in colour when ripe.

Distribution

Widely distributed in various regions of Myanmar.

Part(s) used

Stem

Indications

Impotence, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, generalized weakness.

Preparation & Dosage

Remove the scale from stem, chop and fry with butter. This preparation is orally taken with 8 gm of honey two times a day for impotence. A dose 4 gm of stem powder itself or with lemon juice, three times a day can control diabetes mellitus. 4 gm of stem powder, 4 ml of lemon juice and 4 gm of honey are mixed and taken with warm water three times a day for hypertension. Small slices of stem are mixed with rice rinsing water. Take 25 ml of such preparation is good for generalized weakness.

Adverse effect

Nausea, Vomiting, Dizziness.

Chemical constituents

Diterpenoid furanolactone, phenolic lignon, clerodane diterpenoid, clerodanefuranoditerpene, asterol, fatty acid, diterpenoid from plant, funanoid diterpene, furanoid diterpene glucoside.

Biological Activity

Central nervous depressant and hypoglycaemic activities, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic activities, immunosuppressive activity.

Mimosaceae(ထေနာင္း)

Acacia leucophloea Willd.

Mimosaceae

Myanmar name : Hta Naung (ထေနာင္း)

English name : White Babool

Description

Tall tree, bark yellowish white, branches densely spreading. Leaflets bipinnate, 5-15 pairs, linear-oblong, sub sessile. Inflorescence globose head; flowers numerous. Fruit thin flat pods, slightly curved, covered with pale brown tomentum, seeds 10-20.

Distribution

Grows natu Grows naturally along the road sides and garden especially found middle part of Myanmar.

Part(s) used

Bark , Leaves

Indications

Renal oedema, cardiac oedema, indigestion.

Preparation & Dosage

Externally apply the bark slurry three times a day. Bathe the decoction of leaves at noon.

Chemical constituents

N-hexacosanol, β-amyrin, β-sitosterol, diterpenoid, tannin, isookannin, cyanin, leucodelphinidin-3-0-α-L-rhamnopyranoside and glycosides.

Malvaceae

Abutilon indicum (L.) Sweet.

Malvaceae

Myanmar name : Than pa choke (သံပခ်ဳပ္)

English name : Country mallow, Moon flower.

Description

Tomentose perennial herb, woody at the base, shoots produced perennially. Leaves alternate, simple, cordate, tip acute, margin irregularly toothed, surface with closely-felted white. Inflorescence solitary and axillary; flowers yellow, opening in the evening. Fruit carpels 20, glabrescent, truncate, awns spreading. Seeds brown, marked by shallow depressions.

Distribution

Grows wild as weed on hillsides, in grassland and by roadsides in Myanmar.

Part(s) used

Root, Leaves

Indications

Acute submandibular lymphadenitis, chronic lymphadenitis, dysentery.

Preparation & Dosage

Root slurry is externally applied three times a day. Leaves and sugar are boiled in water until 1/3 of original volume is left. In a dose of 25 ml of such decoction is taken three times a day for dysentery.

Adverse effect

None reported

Chemical constituents

Glossypetin - 8 and 7 - glucosides, cyanidin – 3 - rutinoside, amino acid, glucose, fructose, galactose, gallic acid, alantolactone and isoalantolactone.

Biological Activity

Analgesic activity.

National Herbal Park (Nay Pyi Taw), MYANMAR

ေနျပည္ေတာ္မွာ (၁၉၆.၄)ဧက က်ယ္၀န္းတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအဆင့္မီ အမ်ိဳးသား ပရေဆးဥယ်ာဥ္ကို ဇန္န၀ါရီလအတြင္းမွာ ဖြင့္လွစ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အခုေလာေလာဆယ္ေတာ့ ဌာနဆိုင္ရာအဖြဲ့အစည္းမ်ား မည္သူမဆို ၀င္ၾကည့္လို့ရျပီးေတာ့ အထဲမွာ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ၾကီးဌာန၊ လည္ယာစိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရးႏွင့္ ဆည္ေျမာင္း၀န္ၾကီးဌာန၊ သစ္ေတာေရးရာ၀န္ၾကီးဌာန ေတြက စိုက္ထားတဲ့ ျပည္နယ္နဲ့ တိုင္း အသီးသီးမွာေပါက္တဲ့ ပရေဆးပင္ေတြရွိပါတယ္။ ျပီးေတာ့ ၀န္ၾကီးဌာနအလိုက္ ျပခန္းငယ္ေတြ ေလာေလာဆယ္ျပထားပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအဆင့္မီ ျပတိုက္ၾကီး တည္ေဆာက္ ျပသမွာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။ ျပီးေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအဆင့္မီ တိုင္းရင္းေဆး ဓါတ္ခြဲခန္းၾကီးတစ္ခုကိုလည္း တည္ေဆာက္ျပီး ျမန္မာ့ တိုင္းရင္းေဆးေတြ အရည္အေသြးေတြ ပိုေကာင္းလာေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္မွာျဖစ္တယ္လို့ သိရပါတယ္။ ဒီပရေဆးဥယ်ာဥ္ၾကီးထဲမွာ ပရေဆးပင္ေတြ အစံုအလင္ စိုက္ပ်ိဳး ျပသထားတဲ့အတြက္ ပရေဆးပင္ေလ့လာခ်င္တဲ့ သူေတြအတြက္ေတာ့ အခန့္သင့္ပဲေပါ့ဗ်ာ။

Zibyu

ဇီးျဖဴ
Emblica officinalis Gaertn.
စိတ္၀င္စားသူမ်ား၊ ေလ့လာခ်င္သူမ်ားအတြက္ ျမန္မာ့တိုင္းရင္းေဆးပင္ေတြထဲက ဇီးျဖဴပင္အေၾကာင္းကို ပထမဆံုးအေနနဲ့ ေဖာ္ျပေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ေနာင္လဲ ဒီလိုေဆးပင္အေၾကာင္းမ်ားကို အလ်ဥ္းသင့္သလို ေဖာ္ျပေပးသြားမွာပါ။

officinalis Gaertn.
Euphorbiaceae
Myanmar name : Zibyu (ဇီးျဖဴ)
English name: Indian gooseberry, Emblic myrobalan.

Description
A deciduous tree with spreading branches, bark flaking, greenish grey, branchlets slender, pubescent. Leaves closely set along the branchlets, equal and symmetrically arranged, like the leaflets of pinnate leaf, light green, glabrous, narrowly linear, subsessile. Inflorescence raceme in axillary fascicles on branchlets; flowers yellow or greenish yellow, male flowers numerous, on short slender pedicles. Female flowers few, subsessile, disk absent in male flower, a lacerate cup in female flower. Fruit flesh, globose with 6 obscure lobed, pale yellow.
Distribution
Wildly grow or cultivated for its edible fruit throughout tropical zone of Myanmar.
Part(s) used
Fruit.
Indications
Menorrhagia, insomnia.
Preparation & Dosage
Regularly or frequently have fresh fruit as edible fruit for general well being. For menorrhagia, the mixture of 16 gm of fruit powder and ten times of sugar, and 2 gm of such mixture is orally taken two times a day itself or with milk. Take 25 gm of fruit powder is mixed 4 gm of honey with warm water for insomnia.
Adverse effect
It decreases milk production in lactating mother.
It also disturbs regular menstruation.
Chemical constituents
Trigalloy glucose , terchebin , corilagin , ellagic acid from fruit Seed fat contained linoleic acid 64.8% ellagic acid and lupeol from roots, Tannin from bark.
Biological Activity
Anti inflammatory activity, hepatic cholesterol lowering activity.

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