Salmali, Sanghapushpi & Satavari
Detailed Dravyas for BAMS students
Dr. Remya Krishnan

Salmali
• Salmalia malabarica
• Bombocaceae
• Kandakandhya , Picchila , Mocha, Mocha rasa , Raktapushpa, Sthirayu
• Charaka –Purisha virajaneeya,Sonithaasthapana , Vedanaasthapana ,
Kahaya skandhas
• Susrutha – Pryangwadi

Varieites , Morphology
• Salmali- Bombax malabaricum
• Kuta salmali- Ceiba pentantra
• A tall deciduous tree with a straight buttressed trunk having a clear bole of
24-30m and spreading branches
• Bark is grey or brown covered with hard, sharp conical prickles
• Leaves- Large , spreading , glabrous, digitate, lanceolate leaflets , 3-7 entire
• Flowers – Red numerous , appearing when the tree is bare of leaves ,
stamens arranged in five bundles of 9-12 each .
• Fruits- Capsule dehiscing by five valves
• Gummy exudate – Light brown in colour , gradually becoming opaque and
dark brown

Chemical constituents
• Useful part- Gum , stem bark
• Chemical constituents – Bark exudate – Gallic and Tannic acid , D-
Galacto pyranose

• Write RP, DK, BK, RK
Dosage Gum -1-3 gms
• Yogas – Salmali ghrita

Sankhapushpi
• Clitoria ternatea
• Asphota , Girikarnika, vishnukrantha
• Charaka – Sirovirechanopaga
• Susrutha & Vagbhata – Not mentioned
• Vraieties – Shwetha and Nila ( Dhanwanthari Nighantu)
• White and blue flowered varieties

Chemical constituents
• Useful part- Root, root bark
• Chemical constituents –Aparajatin, Taraxerol, Taraxerone , Alpha and
Beta sitosterol , Robinin, Quercitin, Kaempferol,Ternatins

Self work
• Write RP, DK,RK and BK
• Root powder 1-3 gms
• Yogas- Garbhapala rasa

Satavari
• Asparagus racemosus
• Liliaceae
• Synonyms – Indivara, Bahusuta,Madabhanjani, Satamuli, Satavirya ,
Sukshma patra, Atirasa
• Charaka – balya, Vayahsthapana ,Madhura skandhas
• Susrutha-Vidarigandhadi, Pitta samshamana , Kantaka panchamula
• Vagbhata –Vidarigandhadi
• Vraieties- Satavari, Mahasatavari
• Asparagus racemose and Asparagus sarmentosa

Morphology
• An armed climbing undershrub with woody terete stems and
recurved rarely straight spines
• Young stems very delicate , brittle and smooth
• Leaves reduced to minute chaffy scales and spines
• Triquetrous cladodescurved in tufts
• Flowers white fragnantin simple or branched racemes on naked
nodes of main shoots or in axils of thorns
• Fruits – Globular or three lobed , purple berries, purplish black when
ripe
• Seeds with hard and brittle testa

Useful part and chemical constituents
• Useful part- Root
• Chemical constituents –Sarsapogenin,Two Spirostanolic and two
Furostanolic saponins , Sitosterol, Asparagamine

Self work
• Write RP, DK, BK and RK
• Dosage
• Fresh juice- 10-20 ml
• Decoction- 50-100 ml
• Powder – 3-6 gms
Yogas- Satavari guda, Satavari ghrita