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Celastrus paniculatus Willd. (Fam. Celastraceae) |
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English Name |
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Climbing Staff tree, Intellect Tree, Black-oil Plant |
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Latin Name |
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Celastrus paniculatus Willd. (Fam. Celastraceae) |
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Hindi Name |
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Sanskrit Name |
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Jyotishmati,Katabhi, Jyotishka, Kanguni |
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History |
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Habitat |
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consists of dried, brownish-orange, ripe seeds, devoid of capsule wall of Celastrus paniculatus Willd. (Fam. Celastraceae); a large climbing shrub, mostly found all over the hilly parts of the country upto an altitude of 1200 m. |
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Morphology
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a) Macroscopic
Dried ripe seeds more or less covered by orange-red crusty aril, seed without aril also prescent, measuring 5-6 mm in length and 2.5-3.35 mm in breadth, a few roughly three sided being convex on the sides and a few two sided with one convex and other more or less flat side, one edge of many seeds show a faint ridge or raphe on the whole margin; surface generally smooth and- hard; colour, light to dark brown; odour, unpleasant; taste, bitter.
b) Microscopic
Seed - Shows single layered epidermis covered externally with thick cuticle and filled with tannin, followed by 4-6 layers of thin-walled, collapsed, parenchymatous cells and layer of radially elongated stone cells; parenchyma of top one or two layers longer than of the below with triangular intercellular spaces; inner most layer of parenchyma containing prismatic crystals of calcium oxalate; beneath stone cells layer quadrangular to octagonal, tangentially elongated cells filled with brownish contents; endosperm composed of polygonal, thin-walled, parenchymatous cells having oil gloubles and aleurone grains; embryo spathulate in fleshy endosperm containing oil globules and aleurone grains.
Powder - Oily, dark brown; under microscope shows groups of endospermic parenchyma, stone cells, oil globules and aleurone grains and shows fluorescence under U.V. light as following :-
Powder as such : Grenish -brown
Powder + 1 N NaOH in
Methanol : Light green
Powder + Nitrocellulose in
Amyl Acetate : Yellowish-green
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Principal Constituents Pharmacology
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The seeds are reported to contain the alkaloids celastrine and paniculatin. |
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Toxicology
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Indications
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The seeds constitute the drug; they are bitter, and have an unpleasant odor. They possess emetic, diaphoretic, febrifugal and nervine properties and are used for sharpening the memory; and also used to cure sores, ulcers, rheumatism and gout. |
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