Botanical Index No. 894

Salpani

desmodium gangeticum (l.) dc.

Medicinal Actions

Analysis pending research update.

Primary Conditions Treated

Asthma Atherosis Bacteria Biliousness Bite Bronchosis Cancer abdomen colon nose Catarrh Childbirth Cough CVI Diarrhea Dysentery Dysuria Enterosis Fever Fungus Hemicrania Hemorrhoid Immunodepression Infection Inflammation Insomnia Mycosis Nausea Nervousness Neurosis Polyp Pulmonosis Rhinosis Snakebite Sting Stress Thirst Tuberculosis Typhoid Vomiting Water Retention Worm

Safety & Contraindications

Not covered. Nontoxic in acute toxicity studies. Alkaloids curaroid. Quarternary beta-carboline alkaloids anticholinesterase, 1/6th as potent as physostigmine, more potent than tertiary beta-carbolines. Perhaps their synergies may make up for low quantitation of genistein itself.

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