The Best Way To NAGABALA

Botanical Name :Grewia hirsute Vahl. &Sidaveronaecifolia Lam.

 Classification:

According To Modern

Kingdom –Plantae

Order  –Malvales

Family     – Tiliaceae

According To Ayurveda

Charak             – Not included in Varga

Sushruta          – Not included in Gana

Bhavprakash   – Guducyadivarga

Other Names :

English                 – Heart leaf fanpetals, snake mallow.

Hindi                               – Bananiyar, Bhyunlibhuinii

Tamil                    – Palampasi

Marathi               – Nagabala

Gujarati               – Gangeti

Bengali                – Gorakshachakule

Telugu                 – Gayapaaku, bekkinatalegida

Kannada             –  Nagabala, Turuvegida

Malayalam         –  Vallikkuruntotti, Nagabala.

General Information :

Habit- Perennial much-branched herb. Branches- Prostrate or trailing. Leaves- Cordate, 1 to 2.5 cm long, serrate, sparsely clothed with stellate hairs. The petiole is 1 to 2 cm long.  Flowers- Pale yellow colored. Seeds- Brown in color.Grewia hirsute VahlSymb. Habit- Shrub grows up to 90 cm in height. Branches- Slender. Leaves- 5 to 11 cm long, 1 to2.5 cm wide, oblong, narrowed gradually to the apex, serrate base is rounded, 3-nerved, clothed with very small stellate hairs above. Petiole is 2.5 to 4 mm long, stout and hairy, stipules are 25 mm long, linear and hairy. Flowers- White, turning to yellow.2 to 4 together. Fruit- Up to 1 cm in diameter, more or less 2 to 4 lobed, shining, brown with scattered hairs.

Properties (Gunadharma)

Rasa- Madhura, Kasaya

Vipak- Madhura

Virya- Sheeta

Guna-Guru, Snigdha, Picchila

 Specific Parts :

Root(Mula)

Doshaghnata :

Pacifies Pitta by all its attributes and Vata by all of them except kashayaanurasa.

           

Benefits :

Being hridya, it should be used in hridroga. It pacifies rasagata Pitta and eliminates angavidaha[i.e. burning all over the body] and raktagatapitta also. It has madhura-kashaya rasa, madhuravipaka and sheetaveerya and hence it pacifies aggravated Pitta present in raktapitta and also causes vasoconstriction due to its kashayaanurasa which helps in raktastambhana.

Sosa (Debilitated)

5 gm of root powder of Nagabala (Grewia hirsute) is taken on the first day then gradually increased up to 40 g. with milk for a month keeping on milk diet will promote strength.

Hridroga(Heart Diseases)

Usage of the root of Nagabala(Grewia hirsute) and bark of Arjuna (Terminaliaarjuna) with milk is a good remedy for Hridroga(Heart diseases).

Shloka’s :

स्निग्धा रुच्या बल्या वृश्या ग्राहिनी वातपित्तजीत |

तद्वन्नागबलात्यर्थ कृच्छ्रे क्षीणे क्षते हिता ||

चुर्नामनागबलायास्तु घृतमाक्षिकमिश्रीतम |

प्रलीह्यात्प्रारुत्थाय क्षयव्याधिनीवारनम ||

Formulation (Kalp):

            Name                          Indication

BaladyaTaila                Unmada, Apasmara

NagabalaTaila             Vatarakta

Baladyaghrita              Raktapitta

Dosage :

Quatha-40 to 80 ml.

Root powder – 2 to 4 gm.

 Research Corner :

Isolation of the (4Z,12Z)- cyclopentadeca-4, 12-dienone from the methoanol extract of the leaves of Grewiahirsuta was performed by the column chromatography to yield different fractions. These fractions were then subjected to purification and the structure was elucidated and confirmed by spectroscopic method including UV, FTIR (1) H, (13) CNMR and the accurate mass determination was carried out using the Q-TOF mass spectrometer/ om-vivo experimentation  was performed with evaluatiuon of a-glucosidase, a-amylase and MTT assay that had been reported by the author in the earlier paper. Molecular docking study was performed with GLiDE docking software.