Dhanvantari Vatika धन्वन्तरि वाटिका

Botanical Name :- Terminalisa arjuna

Common Name :- Kahua

Family :- Combretaceae (Haritaki kul)

Habit :- Tree, 60-80 ft. in heigth.

Properties :-

Property – Lightness, dryness

Taste – Fragrant

Potency – Cooling

Metabolic Property – Pungent

Specific Property – Heart vitaliser

* Wound healer *Anti-obese *Diabetic wound healer *Useful in vitiated condition of kaph & pitta

Part Used :- Bark

Dosage :- Milk processed – 5-10 gm.

Decoction – 50-100 ml.

Expressed juice – 10-20 ml.

Powder – 3-6 gms.

Uses:-

1. In Cardiac disorders – Milk processed with arjun bark should be used.

2. In Intrinsic haemorrhage – Bark of arjun, udumbar, vetas should be used combinely or separately to checks intrinsic-haemorrhage.

3. In Koch's – Powder of arjun bark mixed with expressed juice of Vasa leaves should be given with purified sugar-candy, honey and ghee.

4. In wound, fracture and inflammatory conditions – It is used internally and externally.

5. In Meno-metrorrhagia, Leucorrhoea – Decoction of arjun bark & white chandan should be used.