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Veerya : Shita
Vipaaka : Katu
Karma: Grahi, Vishaghna, Garbhasthaapana, Kriminut, Sandhaaniya
IMPORTANT FORMULATIONS
Brihat Gangadhara Churna
THERAPEUTIC USES
Atisara, Trishna, Visarpa, Raktapitta
DOSE
3-6 g. of drug in powder form
SHVETA JEERAKA (Fruit)
SYNONYMS
Sanskrit : Ajaji, Jiraka, Ajajika
Assamese : Jira
Bengali : Jira, Sadajira
English : Cumin seed. Cumin
Gujrati : Jirautmi, Jiru, Jiraugi, Jeeru, Jirun
Hindi : Jeera, Safed Jeera
Kannada : Jirage, Bilejirege
Kashmiri : Safed Zoor
Malayalam : Jeerakam
Marathi : Pandhare jire
Oriya : Dhalajeera, Dalajira, Jira
Punjabi : Safed Jira, Chitta Jira
Tamil : Sheeragam, Chirakam, Jeerakam
Telugu : Jilakarra, Tella Jilakarra
Shveta jeeraka consists of ripe fruits
of Cuminum cyminum, Linn. (Fam.
Umbelliferae), a glabrous, annual
herb, 30-90 cm hight, flowers very
small, white, about 38 mm long
stalk in compound umbels, mostly
cultivated in plains, plants pulled
out, dried thrashed for collecting
mature fruits.
Urdu : Zirah, Zirasafed
DESCRIPTION
a) Macroscopic Fruit, a cremocarp, often separated into mericarps,
brown with light coloured ridges ellipsoidal, elongated, about 4-6
mm long, 2 mm wide, tapering at ends and slightly compressed
laterally, mericarps with 5 longitudinal hairy primary ridges from
base to apex, alternating with 4 secondary ridges which are flatter
and bear conspicuous emergences, seeds orthospermous, odour
umbelliferous characteristic, taste, richly spicy.
b) Microscopic Transverse section of fruit shows epidermis consisting of
short polygonal, tabular cells densely covered with short, bristle hairs
on ridges, mesocarp with few layers of parenchyma and five vascular
bundles under five primary ridges, six vittae under secondary ridges,
four on dorsal and two on commissural surface, endocarp consists of
polygonal cells containing fixed oil and aleurone grains carpophore
consists of slender fibres.
IDENTITY, PURITY AND STRENGTH
Foreign matter Not more than 2 per cent, Total Ash Not more than 8
per cent, Acid-insoluble ash Not more than 1 per cent, Alcohol-soluble
extractive Not less than 7 per cent, Water-soluble extractive Not less
than 15 per cent,
CONSTITUENTS Essential oil
PROPERTIES AND ACTION
Rasa : Katu
Guna : Laghu, Ruksha, Tikshna
Veerya : Ushna
Vipaka : Katu
Karma:Ruchya, Deepana, Paachana, Graahi, Krimighna, Kaphavaatahara
IMPORTANT FORMULATIONS - Jeerakadyarisha, Jeerakadi
Modaka, Hingvadi Churna, Hinguvadi Churna
THERAPEUTIC USES - Agnimandya, Atisara, Krimiroga
DOSE : 1-3 g of the drug in powder form.
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