Description of Bergenia ciliate:<\/p>\n
It grows in the temperate Himalayas between altitudes of 900 and 3,000 m.It is a perennial herb with stout rootstock. The leaves are variable, coarsely hairy, sparsely hairy to glabrous, broadly obovate or elliptic, finely or sparsely denticulate or shallowly sinuate-dentate. The flowers are white, pink or purple, in long cymose panicles. Capsules are rounded. The rhizome is buff-brown color outside and pinkish brown inside. The market sample is transversely wrinkled or irregularly shrivelled with exfoliating, thin bark, having rootlets or thin scars, buds and scaly leaves.<\/p>\n
Principal Constituents:<\/strong> Pharmacology<\/strong><\/p>\n It is reported to be helpful in dissolving kidney stones. In lower doses, the extract is mildly diuretic<\/p>\n Toxicology<\/strong><\/p>\n In higher doses it is cardio-toxic, shows anti-diuretic action, and has depressant action on the central nervous system<\/p>\n Medicinal Action and Uses<\/strong> Description of Bergenia ciliate: It grows in the temperate Himalayas between altitudes of 900 and 3,000 m.It is a perennial herb with stout rootstock. The leaves are variable, coarsely hairy, sparsely hairy to glabrous, broadly obovate or elliptic, finely or sparsely denticulate or shallowly sinuate-dentate. The flowers are white, pink or purple, in long cymose … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[211,210,17,32,212,40,1123],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herba","tag-bergenia","tag-bergenin","tag-biology","tag-botany","tag-diuretic","tag-leaf","tag-pasanabheda","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bergenia-ciliate.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe rhizome contains an active principle, bergenin (0.6%).<\/p>\n
\nIt is given to dissolve kidney stones and also as a diuretic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"