Pharmacological action: Nervine tonic, cerebral stimulant, stomach and bladder tonic.
Medicinal use: Effective in facial paralysis, palsy, gout, rheumatism, sciatica, backache, digestive debility and impotency.
Category: A
Awsara Reywand (Garcinia Morella) (Gamboge)
Pharmacological action: Powerful hydragogue, cathartic, anthelmintic, anti-spasmodic.
Medicinal use: Effective in purging malhumours present in the body due to physiological or organ dysfunctions. Effective against brain and nervous disorders, paralysis, convulsions, epilepsy, severe constipation. Also cures abnormal leucorrheal discharge, gonorrhea and gleet.
Asrol (Rauwolfia serpentina) (Snake root)
Pharmacological action: Antihypertensive, sedative, psychotropic.
Medicinal use: Effective in hysteria, high blood pressure, insomnia and irritative conditions of the central nervous system.
Asgand (Withania somnifera) (Winter Cherry)
Pharmacological action: Anti-rheumatic, diuretic.
Medicinal use: Effective in general debility, senile disorders, rheumatism, nervous exhaustion, loss of memory, spermatorrhea. Also effective in leucorrhea.
Asalas Soos (Glycyrrhiza glabra) (Liquorice)
Pharmacological action: Cooling, demulcent, expectorant, anti-inflammatory.
Medicinal use: Effective in relieving thirst and cough, purging the body of unhealthy humours, asthma, irritation of larynx, soar throat.
Arosa (Adhatoda vasica) (Vasaka)
Pharmacological action: Expectorant and antispasmodic.
Medicinal use: Effective in cough, chest congestion, asthma, tuberculosis.
Pharmacological action: Anti-phlegmatic, stimulant, purifier of cephalic humors, cardiac tonic.
Medicinal use: Effective in purifying impurities from the cephalic region, improves potency and sperm count, relieves chest pain and sciatica.
Pharmacological action: Anti-haemorrhagic and anti-bilious.
Medicinal use: Effective in internal hemorrhages, bloody piles, menorrhagia. Also used in tuberculosis, lung infections, capillary bronchitis, whooping cough, chronic diarrhea and malaria.
Anar (Punica granatum) (Pomegranate)
Pharmacological action: Antringent, refrigerant, anti-diarrhea, diuretic.
Medicinal use: Effective in strengthening heart and liver and formation of blood. Also used for diarrhea, piles, weak eyesight, quenching thirst and re-hydrating body.
Pharmacological action: Carminative, diuretic and antiseptic, anti-oxidant.
Medicinal use: Effective in palpitation, tachycardia, scurvy, cardiac and stomach debility, excessive body heat, chronic diarrhea and dysentery.