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Climbing Staff tree, Intellect Tree, Black-oil Plant
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Habitat
Morphology
Principal Constituents
Indications
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English Name
Climbing Staff tree, Intellect Tree, Black-oil Plant
Latin Name
Celastrus paniculatus Willd. (Fam. Celastraceae)
Hindi Name
Malkangani
Sanskrit Name
Jyotishmati,Katabhi, Jyotishka, Kanguni
Habitat
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.
 
Morphology
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
 
Principal Constituents Pharmacology
The seeds are reported to contain the alkaloids celastrine and paniculatin.
 
 
Indications
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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