Safed Aak

Description :

The dried root bark has abortifacient, alterative, anthelmintic, antiinflammatory, antispasmodic, bitter, depurative, digestive, emetic, expectorant, febrifuge, laxative, stomachic and tonic properties that relieves strangury, cures ulcers and acts as an expectorant. It is also used in enlargement of spleen, asthma and dysentery. Calotropin, extracted from the roots, has been found to be effective in fertility control as it inhibited the motility of sperms. Its leaves are used to relieve stomach pain and used in oedema and enlargement of the abdominal viscera. The flowers are anthelmintic, appetiser, astringent, bitter, digestive, stomachic and tonic, that cure piles, asthma, loss of appetite and wounds and are useful in cholera.

Externally it is useful in rheumatism, paralysis and gout.

                                

Details :

Botanical name: Calotropis gigantea

English Name : Swallow-wort, Calotropis, Milkweed, Mudar, Madar Tree

Hindi Name :Safed aak ,Akh, Ak, Madar, Safed Aak, Arkh,Crown Flower

Sanskrit Name : Arka, Alarka, Surya Patra, Mandara, Ravi, Bhanu, Tapana

Manipuri Name :Angkok

Tamil Name :Erukku

Telugu Name : Jilledi Puvvu

Marathi Name : Ruiti ,Rui

Arabic Name : Ushar, Ashur

Bengali Name : Akand, Akone

Chinese Name : Niu jiao gua

French Name : arbre à soie, Mudar

German Name : Kronenblume, Madar-Strauch

Part Used :Flower

Medicinal Uses :

• Traditionally Calotropis is used alone or with other medicinals (Caius 1986) to treat common disease such as fevers, rheumatism, indigestion, cough, cold, eczema, asthma, elephantiasis, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. 
• According to Ayurveda, dried whole plant is a good tonic, expectorant, depurative, and anthelmintic. 
• The root bark is febrifuge, anthelmintic, depurative, expectorant, and laxative. 
• The powdered root used in asthama, bronchitis, and dyspepsia. 
• The leaves are useful in the treatment of paralysis, arthralegia, swellings, and intermittent fevers. 
• The flowers are bitter, digestive, astringent, stomachic, anthelmintic, and tonic . 
• Calotropis yields a durable fiber useful for ropes, carpets, fishing nets, and sewing thread. Floss, obtained from seeds, is used for stuffing purposes. 
• Fermented mixture of Calotropis and salt is used to remove the hair from goat skins for production of "nari leather" and of sheep skins to make leather which is much used for inexpensive book-binding . 

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