Justicia adhatoda is a medicinal plant native to Asia that is widely used in homeopathy and Unani medicine systems. It is a shrub with lance-shaped leaves and white flowers. The leaves contain phytochemicals like alkaloids, tannins, and flavonoids that give the plant medicinal properties. It is a highly efficacious medicine for acute respiratory conditions like cough, asthma, bronchitis, and sore throat. It has anti-inflammatory, expectorant, and bronchodilating effects.
2. Justicia adhatoda,
commonly known in English as Malabar
nut, adulsa, adhatoda, vasa.
Common Name Vasaka
English Malabar nut
Family Acanthaceæ
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3. It is a medicinal plant native
to Asia,
widely used in Homeopathy
and Unani systems of medicine.
The plant's native range is
the Indian
subcontinent (Assam, Banglades
h, India, Nepal and Sri
Lanka), Laos and Myanmar.
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4. Botanical description
• Justicia adhatoda is a shrub with lance-shaped
leaves 10 to 15 centimeters in length by four
wide.
• They are oppositely arranged, smooth-edged,
and borne on short petioles.
• When dry they are of a dull brownish-green
colour. They are bitter-tasting.
• When a leaf is cleared with chloral hydrate and
examined microscopically the oval stomata can be
seen.
• They are surrounded by two crescent-shaped cells
at right angles to the ostiole.
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5. Botanical description
• The epidermis bears simple one- to three-celled
warty hairs, and small glandular hairs.
• Cystoliths occur beneath the epidermis of the
underside of the blade.
• The trunk has many long opposite ascending
branches, where the bark is yellowish in color.
• Flowers are usually white and the inflorescence
shows large, dense, axillary spikes.
• Fruits are pubescent, and are with club-shaped
capsules.
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6. Chemical composition
The leaves of Justicia adhatoda contains
phytochemicals such as alkaloids, tannins,
saponins, phenolics and flavonoids.[8] The
most important is vasicine,
a quinazoline alkaloid.[4] The vasicine yield
of the herbage has been measured as
0.541 to 1.1% by dry weight.
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7. Highly efficacious medicine for
acute catarrhal conditions of the
respiratory tract.
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8. Head.
Irritable,
sensitive to external impressions;
hot,
full and heavy head;
lachrymation, with coryza,
profuse,
fluent, with constant sneezing;
loss of smell and taste;
coryza with cough.
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9. Throat.
Dry,
pain during empty swallowing,
tenacious mucus.
Mouth dry.
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10. Respiratory.
• Dry cough from sternal region all over
chest.
• Hoarseness, larynx painful.
• Paroxysmal cough, with suffocative
obstruction of respiration.
• Cough with sneezing.
• Severe dyspnśa with cough.
• Tightness across chest.
• Asthmatic attacks, cannot endure a close,
warm room.
• Whooping-cough.
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12. Indications:
• Bronchitis – both acute and chronic, especially
indicated if mucous is thick and tenacious
• Cough (combine with echinacea and Eleuthero)
• Asthma
• Respiratory mucus – e.g. upper respiratory tract
infection
• Emphysema
• Gingivitis – locally applied 2 times daily (3 weeks
in literature)
• To assist with uterine contraction or for post-partum
haemorrhage
• Fever – traditional use
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13. Self Medication can be Harmful for your Health.
Consult a Homeopathic Doctor to know potency
and usage of medicine.
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