jivaka :
Phytochemistry:
Alcohol (ceryl alcohol), glucose, rhamnose and diterpenesM. acuminata is important for its medicinal uses in traditional system of medicine since Vedic period but study on its phytoconstituents is very less. Malaxis orchids are believed to contain large number of alkaloids, glycosides, flavonoids. Some phytoconstituents has been reported from M. acuminata. One sterol namely β-sitosterol (1) has been isolated from ethyl acetate extract of M. Acuminata19. Other reported Compounds include piperitone (2) citronellal (3), eugenol (4), Limonene (5), 1, 8- cineole (6), p- cymene (7), O-Methylbatatasin (8) and cetyl alcohol (9)
PHARMACOLOGY:
IMPORTANT FORMULATIONS1. Manasamitra Vataka,
2. Dasamularishta,
3. Cyavanaprashyaa,
4. Brahma Rasayana,
5. sivagutika,
6. Amrtaprasha Ghrta,
7. Asoka Ghrta,
8. Dhanvantara Taila,
9. Bala Taila,
10. Guduchyadi Taila,
11. Brihat Asvagandha Ghrta
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