Main Synonym:- Rasala, chuta, sahakara, pikavallabha Regional Name:- Hindi : Aam Botanical Name:- Mangifera indica Linn Family:- Anacardiaceae
Acharya charaka – hridya, chardinigrahan, purishsamgrahaniya, mutrasamgrahaniya Mahakashaya
Acharya shusruta – Nyagrodhadi gana
Acharya Vagbhatta – Nyagrodhadi gana
External Morphology:-
•15-20 meter medium to High tree
•The leaves are simple, shiny and dark green.
•Red-yellow flowers appear at the end of winter, and also at the beginning of spring.
•trunk circumference of more than 3.7 m (12 ft).
•fruit is round oval or oblong in shape with smooth leathery skin.
Used Parts:
fruit, seed pulp, leaves, bark
Important Phytoconstituent:
Vitamin A, B, citric acid, galic acid
Rasa Panchak:-
Rasa : Madhur, Amla, kashaya
Guna : laghu, ruksha( seed pulp), snigdha ( fruit)
Virya : shita
Vipaka : katu
Karma:-
Vata shaman ( ripen fruit)
Kaphpitta Hara ( other parts)
Therapeutic Indication/Disease:-
Fruit – Deepen(increase appetite), chardihara (useful in vomiting) Seed pulp – Atisara (in diarrhea), pradara (in lucorrhea), prameha (diabetes)
Therapeutic Uses:-
1. Atisara – A paste of tender leaves of amra with tandulodaka is useful in diarrhea.
2. Raktapitta – Seed pulp juice in both nostril as nasya treatment.
3. Aruchi – Juice of ripen/ unriped fruit is useful in anorexia.
4. Rakta arsha – Seed pulp powder twice a day in bleeding piles.
Dose:-
Seed pulp – 1-1.5 gm
Bark – 3-6gm
Formulations:-
Bruhat gangadhar churna, nyagrodhadi churna, patrangasava, katak khadiradi kashaya