A Comparative Pharmacognostical Study of two varities of flowers of Palash (Butea monosperma Lamk.Taub) Rakta Palash and Pita Palash
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Palash, Butea monosperma, Pharmacognosy, Rakta Palash flower, Pita Palash flowerAbstract
The Palash (Butea monosperma Lamk.Taub.) belonging to family Fabaceae is used for therapeutic uses since ancient time. Most of the regions of India, it is used for worship of god as well as in many festivals. Palash is pungent (katu), bitter (tikta) and astringent (kashay) in taste (Rasa), and its vipaka is katu and veerya is ushna. It alleviates kapha and vata doshas, but aggravates the pitta doshas. The flowers of Palash are bitter (tikta), pungent (katu) and astringent (kashay) in test (Rasa), madhur vipaka and sheeta veerya. So it alleviates pitta and kapha dosha and vata doshas. Narahari has mentioned the four types of Palash viz. Rakta (red), Pita (yellow), Shweta (white) and Nila (blue) in Raj Nighantu. The Rakta Palash (Butea monosperma (Lamk.) Taub) is commonly available all over India. Out of above varieties, Shweta and Nila are seldomly available and Pita is rare. The abundantly available Rakta variety is used commonly in medicines and is called as flame of the forest. Palash (Butea monosperma (Lamk.)Taub) has been widely used in the traditional Indian medical system of ‘Ayurveda’ for the treatment of a variety of ailments. It is very essentials to have a proper documentation of such useful medicinal plants. In this article an attempt to compile and document on Comparative Pharmacognostical Study of two varities of flowers of Palash (Butea monosperma Lamk .Taub) Rakta Palash and Pita Palash.
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