basaka is a plant, use of medicine .

1. SEMINER ON
PRESENTED BY
Sukanta Das
M.SC 1ST SEMESTER,

2. INTRODUCTION:
Medicinal plants:- plants with
recognized medical use. As
pharmaceutical products as plants in
herbal medicine preparation. Some
plants are cultivated some are found
as wild plants in forest. Now a days
cultivation encouraged for mass
production .
In India 20,000 such sp.are found.
Basaka is one of them.

3.  Botanical Name : Adhatoda vasica
 Common Name: Adulsa
 Classification
 Kingdom: Plantae
 Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
 Division: Magnoliophyta
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 Class: Magnoliopsida
 Subclass: NA
 Order: Lamiales

4.  Family: Acanthaceae
 Genus: Adhatoda
 Species: vasica
 Part used: Leaves, roots, flowers, bark
 Medicinal Properties
 Alternative, antispsmodic, diuretic, expectorant.
 Medicinal Use
 Asthma, bleeding, bronchitis, cough, diabetes, diarrhea,
dysentery, epilepsy, fever, flu, hysteria, insainty, neuralgia,
rheumatic pain, skin disorders, swelling, TB, urinary disorders,
vomiting, wasting.

5.  Chemistry: quinazoline alkaloid, vasicine, Vasicol,
adhatodinine and vasicinol
 Cultivation : grows in wide range of soils & climatic
condition.
Flowering & fruiting: December to april
 Description
 It is a large shrub grows crowded along waste land,
roadsides etc. Leaves are simple, opposite, ovate-lanceolate,
acute and shiny. Flowers are white in capsule shape.

6.  ADHATODA VASICA (VASAKA)
 Filed under:
 Tags: Acanthaceae, Adatodai, Adulsa, Arusa, Bakas, Malabar
Nut Tree
 Plant Family : Acanthaceae
 Common name : Adatodai, Arusa, Adulsa, Bakas, Malabar A
 Origin : A small evergreen, sub-herbacious bush which
grows commonly in open plains, especially in the lower
Himalayas (up to 1000 meters above sea level), India, Sri
Lanka, Burma and Malaysia.

7. Botanical Identification
 Vasaka is a dense perennial shrub.
 Leaves are of dark green colour above and pale yellow
below. Flowers are typical, white arranged in
pendunculated spike

8.  History : Adhatoda leaves have been used extensively
in Ayurvedic Medicine for more than over 2000 years
primarily for respiratory disorders
 Tradition : It was used by traditional midwives at the
time of delivery
 Medicinal Parts Used : Leaves, roots, flowers and
stem bark

9. Contains
Leaves
 • Quinazoline Alkaloids
 - Vasicine – 45-95% (the mucolytic drug
bromhexine was developed from this alkaloid)
N-oxides of vasicine – Vasicinone
 - Deoxyvasicine – Oxyvasicinine
 - Maiontone
 Essential oil

10.  Flowers
 • b-sitosterol-D-glucoside • Kaempferol
 • Glycosides of kaempferol • Queretin
 Roots
 • Vasicinolone • Vasicol • Peganine
 • Hydroxy oxychalcone • Glucosyl oxychalcone

11. Ayurvedic pharmacology
Taste (Rasa) : Bitter, Astringent.
Quality (Guna) : Light, Unctous.
Post Digestion Effect (Vipak) :
Pungent
Potency (Virya) : Cold

12. Adhatoda vasica is used for

13. Bleeding Disorders :
 • bleeding due to idiopathic (unknown)
thrombocytopenic (blood does not have
enough platelets) purpura (excessive
bruising)
Cardiovascular Conditions
 • moderate hypotensive activity (lowers blood
pressure)
 • pulmonary diseases

14.  Female Diseases
 • assists uterine involution (rolling or turning
inward)
 • menorrhagia (excessive menstrual bleeding)
 • uterine stimulant activity
 Gastrointestinal Conditions
 • dyspepsia
 • local bleeding due to peptic ulcer and/or piles

15. Respiratory Tract Conditions
 • acute and chronic bronchitis often combined
with the herbs Licorice and Marshmallow for
soothing the respiratory tract
 • allergic asthma, often combined with the
herbs Tylophora, etc.
 • antihistamine effects (the leaves may be dried
and smoked to relieve asthma)
 • broncho-dilation effects
 • emphysema
 • obstructive airway disease (chronic)
 • phthisis (wasting of the ssues as in tuberculosis)
 • relieves cough and breathlessness

16. USEs OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF BASAKA
LEAVES: Asthma,piles,diarrhoea.
Flower: Ophthamia
Bark: Acidity, heart disease.
Root: Discharged of placenta after delivery in cattle.

17. CONCLUSION
Vasaka is an important medicinal plant in our
community. Curative aspect of vasaka influenced
by their use in medicinal purposes. In Ayurvedic
medicine ancient country like India, have greater
potential effect in the context of medical science.