an additive to compound formulations for bronchitis, asthma, whooping cough, gastrointestinal hypermotility, dysmenorrhoea, nocturnal enuresis and fatigue syndrome.
Atropine provides relief in parkinsonism and neurovegetative dystonia.
The root is the most poisonous, the leaves and flowers less, and the berries the least. (Francis Brinker.)
Dosage Leaf, root—30—60 mg powder. (CCRAS.)
Atylosia goensis Dalz.
Synonym A. barbata Baker
Habitat Subtropical tract of Assam, Maharashtra and Kerala, up to 1050 m.
Ayurvedic Maashaparni (substitute).
Siddha/Tamil Peruvidukol. Action Febrifuge, antibilious, antirheumatic (used in consumption and swellings).
Atylosia scarabaeoides (L.)
Benth.
Family Papilionaceae; Fabaceae. Habitat Throughout India; up to
1,800 m in the western Himalayas. Ayurvedic Vana-kulattha. Folk Jangli Tur, Kulthi.
Action Antidysenteric, anticholerin, febrifuge; also used in anaemia, anasarca and hemiplegia. Seeds— taeniafuge.
A flavone glucoside, atyloside, has been isolated from the leaves.
Avena sativa Linn.
Family Gram ineae; Poaceae.
Habitat A cereal and fodder crop of Europe and America; also cultivated in India.
English Oat, Common oat.
Ayurvedic Yavikaa. (Indian sp. is equated with A. byzantina C. Koch.)
Unani Sult (Silt), Jao Birahnaa, Jao Gandum.
Family Papilionaceae; Fabaceae.
74 Averrhoa bilimbi Linn.
Action Nervine tonic (used in spermatorrhoea, palpitation, sleeplessness), cardiac tonic (used in debility), stimulant, antispasmodic, thymoleptic, antidepressant (used in menopausal phase). Also used in diarrhoea, dysentery, colitis. Externally, emollient.
Key application Oat straw— externally in baths for inflammatory and seborrhoeic skin diseases. (German Commission E.) The effect on blood sugar is less than that from most of the fiber-containing
