BOTANICAL NAME
CARTHAMUS TINCTORIUS
FAMILY
ASTERACEAE
SYNONYMS NAMES
Sanskrit Name :- Kusumbha, Vahnishikha, Vastraranjaka, Vyaghridala, Kantaphala
Hindi Name :- Kusumba, Kusum, Barre, KarrahEnglish Name :- Safflower, African saffron, American saffron, Bastard saffron, Dyer’s saffron. false saffron, Wild saffron
Gujrati Name :- Kasumbo, Karada
Kannada Name :- Kusumbe, Kusubbi
Malyalam Name :- Kuyimpu, Centurakam, Chendurakam
Marathi Name :- Kardai, Kardi, Kurdi
Punjabi Name :- Kar, Karar, Kurtam
Tamil Name :– Chendurukam. kusumba, Sendurgam, Senturakam
Urdu Name :- Karha, Kusum
bengali Name :- Kajirah, Kesum phul
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
PLANT DESCRIPTION (Botanical Identification) :- An erect annual spiny herb 30-120 cm tall. Leaves alternate, simple, simple, rigid. Spinosely serrate,sessile or shortly petiolate, 3-15 * 1-5 cm, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire or dentate-lobed
Flower consists of involucral bracts and florets. Involucral bracts are in whorls, green, outer bracts ovate, oblong, leafy and inner bracts hard, spiny and conical. Florets bisexual, stalked, yellowish to orange-red, delicate, small, consisting of long stalk, corolla, androecium and gynoecium. Petals 5, linear, very thin, yellow to orange-red, united at base and free throughout the length and with acute apex.Stamens 5, united throughout the length and free at tip forming a staminal tube, each stamen consisting of a short, slender filament and 2 another lobes with sagittate base and acute apex.
PART? USED?????????? :-?????? LEAF, FLOWER, SEED, SEED OIL
DOSAGE????????????????? :-????? Seed powder 1-3 gm, Dried flower powder 3-6 gm, Oil 2.5-5 ml
Total ash 12.956 %, Acid insoluble ash 1.024 %, Water soluble extractive 29.425 %, Ethanol soluble extractive 31.407 %,? Pet. Ehter soluble extractive 8.051 %, Acetone soluble extractive 7.345 %, Chloroform soluble extractive 7.345 %, Chloroform soluble extractive 4.597 %
SCIENTIFIC/CLINICAL USES
Antiviral |? Antitumour? | Spasmolytic |? Anticholesteremic? |? Antibacterial? | Nematicidal |? Diuretic | Diaphoretic |? Carthartic? | Antioxidant? |? ? ? ? ? Antiinflmmatory |? Analgesic |? Anticonvulsant? | Antithrombosis? |? ? ? ? Antimycotic | Hypotensive
AYURVEDIC ATTRIBUTES????????
GUNA (Quality)??????
Guru, Snigdh
RASA (Taste)?????????
Kashay, Madhur
VIPAK (Metabolism)?????????
Katu
VIRYA (Potency)???
Ushan
REFERENCES
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