Jatiphaladi churna
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| Kind | Traditional medicine |
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| Part of the plant | Leaf |
| Also called | Jātīphalādya cūrṇa Jatiphaladya churna |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| Country | India |
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| Recorded in | The Materia Medica of the Hindus (1877) |
| Still made | Yes |
Jatiphaladi churna (jātīphalādi cūrṇa) is a powdered medicine of Ayurveda made from nutmeg, cloves, cardamom and 17 other plant drugs in equal parts, with bhang leaf equal in weight to all of them together, and sugar equal to the whole.[1]: 109 The Ayurvedic Formulary of India takes the formula from the Śārṅgadhara Saṃhitā and gives it for tastelessness (aruci), diarrhoea, malabsorption (grahaṇī), dysentery, cough, breathlessness and coryza.[1]: 109, 462–475 Swagata Tavhare and Rabinarayan Acharya count it among the Ayurvedic formulations in which bhaṅgā is a major ingredient.[2]: 61
Making jatiphaladi churna
The Formulary quotes the verses from the sixth chapter of the middle section (madhyamakhaṇḍa) of the Śārṅgadhara Saṃhitā. They call for 20 drugs in equal parts, as much bhaṅgā as all of them together, and sugar equal to all the powders.[1]: 109 The Formulary sets the 20 drugs at one part each, the bhaṅgā leaf at 20 parts and the sugar at 40, to be powdered and taken with honey or water.[1]: 109 In its list of drugs vijayā is the official name of bhaṅgā, and the source plant is Cannabis sativa.[1]: 309
Uday Chandra Dutt gave the same composition in 1877: nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, tejapatra leaves, flowers of nāgakesara, camphor, sandalwood, sesame seed, bamboo manna, flowers of tagara, the chebulic and emblic myrobalans, long pepper, black pepper, ginger, leaves of tālīsa, plumbago root, cumin seed and the seeds of viḍaṅga, with "purified bhāng equal in weight to all the above ingredients, and sugar twice as much as the bhāng". He gave a dose of about 20 to 40 grains, for diarrhoea, indigestion and loss of appetite.[3]: 239–240 Where Dutt has flowers of tagara and cumin, the Formulary has the root of tagara and sthūla jīraka.[1]: 109
Sources
Dutt's Materia Medica of the Hindus prints the Sanskrit verse in a footnote.[3]: 239 In 1894 Abhilas Chandra Mukerjee, a Bengal excise officer, repeated Dutt's recipe almost word for word in his evidence to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, citing the Śārṅgadhara.[4]
Tavhare and Acharya list Jatiphaladi Churna for saṅgrahaṇī, atisāra and grahaṇī, in a dose of one karṣa or one tolā with buttermilk and sugar, citing five later compendia: the Bharata Bhaiṣajya Ratnākara, the Yogataraṅgiṇī, the Vaidyarahasya, the Yogaratnākara and the Bṛhat Nighaṇṭu Ratnākara.[2]: 61, 74–75
The Ayurvedic Formulary of India, Part I, collects 444 classical formulations which its foreword describes as "the most commonly manufactured and used in the clinical practice of Ayurveda". Part I was added to the First Schedule of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, which gave it legal status.[1]: Foreword
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia Committee (2003). The Ayurvedic Formulary of India, Part I (2nd revised English ed.). Delhi: Controller of Publications, for the Department of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. ISBN 8190115146 – via Wellcome Collection.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tavhare, S.D.; Acharya, R. (2017). "Exploring the pharmaco-clinical view on Bhanga (Cannabis sativa Linn.): a classical unfamiliar portrayal". International Journal of Pharmaceutical & Biological Archives. 8 (6): 59–78.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dutt, Udoy Chand (1877). The Materia Medica of the Hindus. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink. pp. 235–241 – via Wellcome Collection.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Babu Abhilas Chandra Mukerjee, Brahmin, Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector, on deputation as 2nd Inspector of Excise, Bengal". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. IV: Evidence of Witnesses from Bengal and Assam. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. p. 169 – via Internet Archive.