Category: S

Pharmacological action: Nervine and hepatic tonic.
Medicinal use: Effective in disorders of spinal marrow, nervous debility, weak reflexes, nervous disorders during menopause. Also used in insomnia, neurosis, hysteria and epilepsy.

Pharmacological action: Carminative, resolvent, diuretic, emmenagogue.
Medicinal use: Effective in flatulence, colic and abdominal pains, rheumatic and other swellings of the joints.

Pharmacological action: Anti-spasmodic, anti-phlegmatic, anti-rheumatic.
Medicinal use: Effective in rheumatism, pain in sciatica, arthritis, gout. Gets rid of cold mal-humours through purgation.

Pharmacological action: Blood purifier, tonic and sedative, diuretic.
Medicinal use: Effective in purging malhumours from the body and in chronic ailments like syphilis, scrofula and leprosy. Purifies blood and regarded as a tonic for stomach, and reduces fever.

Pharmacological action: Aphrodisiac, antidiarrheal, antispasmodic, diuretic.
Medicinal use: Effective in genito-urinary complaints such as seminal weakness, impotence, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, gonorrhea. Also used for dyspepsia, flatulence and diarrhea.

Pharmacological action: Demulcent, lubricant and tonic, expectorant.
Medicinal use: Effective in dry cough, flu, fever, bronchitis. Emollient for pharynx and larynx and expectorant of phlegm and catarrh. Alleviates thirst and body heat, and reduces irritation in urinary passage. Clears the blood of phlegmatic particles.

Pharmacological action: Mucilaginous, demulcent, aphrodisiac.
Medicinal use: Effective in nervous debility, weakness, loss of libido, nocturnal emissions and spermatorrhea. Increases the quantity of seminal fluid and acts as tonic for muscles and blood vessels. Provides nutrition to the body.

Pharmacological action: Cathartic, blood purifier, anthelmintic.
Medicinal use: Effective in purging malhumors from the body, relieving fever, rheumatism, backache, sciatica, gout. Regarded as an effective blood purifier and therefore prescribed in chronic skin ailments. Also effective in loss of appetite, constipation and liver complaints.

Pharmacological action: Tonic for vital organs, disinfectant for respiratory and urogenital organs.
Medicinal use: Effective in fever, thirst, body heat, tachycardia, palpitation, inflamed swellings, headaches, skin diseases, itching, pimples, chronic cough, gonorrhea.