{"id":427,"date":"2014-12-08T08:52:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T08:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2014-12-08T08:52:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T08:52:25","slug":"operculina-turpethum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/operculina-turpethum\/","title":{"rendered":"Operculina turpethum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Description of Operculina Trpethum:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a perennial aromatic creeper. It is a simple stem, triangular or rectangular with hairy stem. Leaves are many and are oval in shape. It is 2 to 5 inch in length. The flower presentation is 1 to 4 inch long and has 3 to 4 branches that bear white flowers. Fruit is round \u00bd to \u00be inch in diameter, it bears 4 shiny 2 inch long seeds. Roots are thick, branched, black in color. The plant fruits and flowers in march to December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chemical Constituents:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The root bark contains glycosidium resin which is 10 %. It also contains a glycoside named turoethin that provides it the purgative action. Besides these it contains two glycosides, volatile oils and yellow colored substance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pharmacology:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is vata and pitta moderator. It helps in improving the peristaltic movements in the body ther fore are used as laxative. It is anti-inflammatory in action because of its hot potency. It also helps in managing the normal body temperature<br \/>\nThe seeds contain an oil composed of fatty acids and sitosterol. The mucilage is compared of sugars &#8211; xylose and polysaccharides.<br \/>\n<strong>Toxicology:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a strong purgative so it is to be given in proper dosage other wise it may cause extremes harms to the body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medicinal Uses:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is use for treatment like Piles, Jaundice, Abdominal disorders, Gout, Rheumatoid arthritis, Cough, Asthma, Inflammation, Fever, Obesity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description of Operculina Trpethum: It is a perennial aromatic creeper. It is a simple stem, triangular or rectangular with hairy stem. Leaves are many and are oval in shape. It is 2 to 5 inch in length. The flower presentation is 1 to 4 inch long and has 3 to 4 branches that bear white &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[645,644,646],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herba","tag-nisoth","tag-trivritt","tag-trpeth","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Operculina-turpethum.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}