HOMOEOPATHIC USES OF TERMINALIA ARJUNA

Botanical name---  Terminalia arjuna ( Roxb. ) W & A

Family  --  Combretaceae

Common names

Bengali-    Arjun

English   -- Arjun

Hindi  --`Arjun

Malayalam--  Arjuna

Sanskrit -- Arjun

Tamil  --  Vellamatta

Occurrence  & Distribution

Common on the banks of rivers , streams, and dry water courses in sub Himalayan  tract, Central and South India and West Bengal.  Also planted for shade or ornament in avenues or parks

Description

A large tree, 20-25 m high, with often buttressed trunk, smooth grey bark., and drooping branchlets. Leaves subopposite , hard, coriaceous, oblong or elliptic, 10 – 20 cm long. Flowers yellowish- white, borne in shortly panicled spikes. Fruits 2.5- 5 cm long, obovoid-oblong, with 5-7 equal , hard, coriaceous , thick narrow wings, their striations curing much upwards

Flowers in March- June and fruits in September – November

Part used

Fruits, leaves, bark

Chemical constituents

Alicylic and amino acids and polypols. Arachidic stearate, cerasidin, hendriacontane, myristyl oleate, mannitol, b- sitosterol, friedelin, methl oleanolate, ellagic and gallic acids, arjunic acids, arjunone,  tannin, arjunetin, baicalein, arjunolone, arjunglucosides 1 & 11, arjunolic acids , saponins, leucocyanidin

Therapeutic uses

Fruits-  deobstruent and tonic

Leaves- juice used in earache, externally used as a cover on sores and ulcers

Bark—antidysenteric, antipyretic, astringent, cardiotonic, lithotriptic, styptic and tonic, powder acts as a diuretic in cirrhosis of liver and gives relief in symptomatic hypertension

HOMOEOPATHIC USES—

HEART- Diseases of the heart, both organic and functional . Angina pectoris, weakness and pain in the heart. Suffocation, vertigo

FRACTURE- In fractures , pain all over the body owing to a fall and all sorts of ecchymosis the action of this drug in such cases is supreme

SPERMATORRHOEA- It is also effective in spermatorrhoea