Product Description
Product Name |
Eclipta extract |
Latin Name |
Eclipta prostrata |
Part Used |
Whole herb |
Specification |
4:1--20:1 Ratio extract |
Ayurvedic Name |
Bhringaraja |
Test Method |
HPLC /TLC |
Appearance |
Brown yellow Powder |
Hindi Name |
Bhangara, Bhringraj Active ingredients: wide range of active principles which includes coumestans, alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides,
|
Shelf Life |
2years |
Store |
Store in a well-closed container away from moisture and direct sunlight |
Therapeutic Uses
The whole plant is used as antiseptic, febrifuge, tonic, deobstruent in hepatic and spleen enlargement and is emetic.
In combination with aromatics, the juice is given in anemia, catarrh and cough.
The plant is also used as scalp tonic for promoting hair growth.
Bhringaraj is commonly used as deobstruent to promote bile flow and to protect the liver parenchymatous tissue in viral
hepatitis and other conditions involving hepatic enlargement.
The fresh juice of the leaves is given in the treatment of edema, fevers, liver disorders, and rheumatic joint pains; it is
also used to improve the appetite and to stimulate digestion.
The juice is given with honey to treat upper respiratory congestion in children.
The hair oil is prepared from boiling the fresh leaves with either coconut or sesame oil renders the hair black and lustrous.
Morphological Characteristics
It is an erect or prostrate, branched (occasionally rooting at nodes) annual herb upto 30-40 cm high.
Stem is cylindrical or flat, rough due to appressed white hairs, nodes distinct and greenish occasionally brownish.
Leaves are opposite, sessile to sub-sessile 2.0 to 6.2 cm long, 1.5-1.9 cm wide, oblong, lanceolate, sub-entire, acute to
sub-acute and strigose with appressed hairs on both surfaces.
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