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  36 Botany name:Calotropis gigantea
Tamil name  :Erukkan
Habit        : Shrub
Parts used : Root, root-bark, leaves and flowers
Constituents :Resins, caoutchoue, akudarin and calotroin.
Collection &storage:For medicinal uses the thic. rough corky
epitermis of the bark should be sraped off before the root bark is
reduced to powder.
   Action   :This drug is like digitalis on the heart root
bark is alterative, tonic, antispasmodic, expectorent and in large
doses emetic. flowers are digestive, tonic, stomachic and expectorent.
milky juice is a violent, purgative, rubefacient and deodorant.
leaves are anthelmintic, alterative and stimulant.

37 Botany name :Capsium annum
   Tamil name :Milagaai
   Habit        :Herb
   Parts used :Fruit
   Constituents :Capsium and solanine
   Action      :A Powerful local irritant, heart and general stimulant, stomachic and tonic.

38 Botany name : Cardiospermum halicacabum
   Tamil name :Mudakkatraan
   Habit        :Herb
   Parts used   :Roots, leaves, seeds and the herb
   Constituents :Seeds or fruits yield an essential oil and saponin.
   Action     : Root and the leaves are diuretic, laxative, stomachic, alterative and emetic. it is externally rubefacient.

39 Botany name :Carica papaya
  Tamil name :Pappali
Habit        :Tree
  Parts used   :Fruit, milky juice, leaves and seeds
  Constituents :The milky juice contains papain. this is similar to
pepsin, dry fruit contains soda, pottash and phosporic acid. leaves
contain carpie and carposide.
  Action      :Papain is cabable of digesting fresh blood fibrane in
4 to 5 hours at the temprature of 50* c juice of the green fruit is emmenagogue and rubefacient. ripe fruit is disestive and alterative.green fruit is laxative and diuretic.

40 Botany name:Cassia angustifolia
   Tamil name :Nila avaarai
   Habit      : Tree
   Parts used :Pods and dried leave.
   Constituents:Pods and leaves contain catharin.
   Action      :Catheric, anthelmintic, purgative and diuretic.

41 Botany name :Cassia fistula
   Tamil name :Sarakkonrai
   Habit        :Tree
   Parts used   :Pulp of the fruit, roor-bark, flower, pods
leaves and roots.
   Constituents :The powderded fruit contains a volatil. pulp,
consists of sugar, gum, gluten,colouring matter, and watter.
   Action       :Demulcent, laxative, vermifuge, xpectorant anti-prutic and purgative.

42 Botany name :Cassia auriculata
   Tamil name   : Aavaarai
   Habit         : Tree
   Parts used    :Roots, leaves, flowers, bark and seeds
   Constituents :Bark contains tannin
   Action       :Flower, leaf and bark are tonic and astringent,
seeds are refrigerant and attenuant. root in decoction is used as alterative.

43 Botany name :Cassia sophera
   Tamil name : Mykkonrai
   Habit       : Tree
   Parts used   :Flowers and bark
   Action        :Diuretic and ant-rhematic

44 Botany name :Citrullus vulgaris
   Tamil nmae    :Tharppoosani
   Habit           :Climber
   Parts used         :  Seeds and the juice of the pulp of the fruit
   Constituents       :  Seeds and yield a oil proteids and citrullin
   Action               :  Seeds are cooling, demulcent, diuretic,
vermifuge, and nutritive. pulp is cooling and diuretic. fruit juice is cooling and refreshing.

45 Botany name : Citrus acida
   Tamil name      :   Elumichambazham
   Habit                : Tree
   Parts used       : Leaves and fruit.
   Costituents      : Rich in vitamin 'C' oil contains citrol pectin.
citric acid and anti-scorbutic acid.
   Action              : Fruit is refrigerent, stomachic, appetizer
and antiseptic.

46 Botany name : Citrus media
   Tamil name      : Naaraththai
   Habit                :  Smaal tree
   Parts used        : Rind, juice and oil
   Constituents     : Oil is expressed from the rind of the fruit.
it contains citrine or limonene, citrol, cymene and citroneleal.
   Action              : Yellow pulp is stomachic. rind is aromatic, stimulant, tonic, and antiscorbutic. fruit juice is refrigerant,
astringent, digestive, antitoxic, aromatic and stomachic.

47 Botany name :  Clerodendron inerme
   Tamil name      :   Sangam kuppi
   Habit                : Shrub
   Parts used        :   Leaves and juice of the roots and the leaves.
   Constituent       :  Leaves contain a bitter princeple. resin, gum
and ash contains sodium.
   Action               :  Tonic, febrifuge and alterative. leaves are mucilaginous, bitter fragrant, cholagogue, antiphlogistic, expectorant, antisyphilithic, anti-rheumatic, alexipharmic and antidote.

48 Botany name : Clerodendron phlomoides
   Tami name       :  Thaludhazhai
   Habit                : Small tree
   Parts used        : Leaves
  Constituents      : Oil is extracted from the leaves
  Action                : Leaves are alterative and tonic. root is
aromatic and astringent. oil is anti-rhuematic.

49 Botany name : Coccinia indica
   Tamil name      :  Kovai
   Habit                :  Climber
   Parts used       : Whole plant
   Constituents    : Root contains resins and the plant contains glucokenin.
   Action             : Plant is diaphoretic, stimulant,diuretic and
cooling, leaves and stem are antispasmodic and expectorant, fruit is
bitter.

50 Botany name : Cocos nucifera
   Tamil name      :   Thennai
   Habit                : Tree
   Parts used       : Whole plant
   Constituents    : Fresh kernel is rich in protein, fat lignin,
sugars and inorganic subatanches. oil is expressed from the dried
flesh of the mutt. coconut water contains proteins, fats, minerals
and carbohydrates, fermented toddy contains proteins, calcium and phosphorus. coconut addition to
oil contains free caprylic acid in glycerides of lauric, myristic, palmitic and stearic acid.
   Action             : Coconut milk is refrigerant , nutrient,
aperients, diuretic and anthelmintic. coconut water is cooling
demulcent and aperients. tender flesh is refrigerant and diuretic .
juice of the terminal bud is refrigerant and diuretic. fermented oil from
the shell is rubefacient, antiseptic and used externally. root of the cocoanut is diuretic.

51 Botanynname : Coelosia klernii
   Tamin name      : Maanchevikkalli
   Habit                 : Herb
   Parts used        : Whole plant
   Constituent       : Euphobon, gum, resin, caoutceouc and malate
of calcium.
   Action               : Milky juice is in small doses purgative
in large doses an acrid, counter irritant and emitic.

52 Botany name : Coriandrum sativum
   Tamil name      : Koththamalli
   Habit                 : Herb
   Parts used        : Whole plant
   Constituents     : Plant contains albuminoids and soluble
carbohydrates. fruits yield a volatile essential oil, fixed oil
which contains fat, muscilage, tannin and malic acid.
   Action              : Fruit is aromatic, stimulant, carminative, stomachic, antibilious, refrigerant, tonic,
diuretic and aphrodisiac. fresh leaves are pungent and aromatic.

53 Botany name : Cucumis sativus
   Tamil name      :  Vellarikkaai
   Habit                :  Creeper
   Parts used       :   Fruit, seeds and leaves.
   Constituents    :  Seeds contain fixed oil, starch, resin and
sugar fruit is in mineraks.
   Action              :  Fruit is nutrient, demulchent, refrigerant, diuretic, antiscorbutic, stomachic and antidote,
ripend fruit is   hydrogogue and expectorant,seeds are cooling and diuretic.

54 Botany name : Cuminum cyminum
   Tamil name      : Seeragam
   Habit                : Herb
   Parts used        : Fruit or seeds and an essential oil.
   Constituents     : Fatty oil, resin, mucilage gum,protein, compounds,maleates and an essential oil,
a valuable essentialoil   'THYMEN' rich in 'CARVON' obtained from the seeds. seeds also
contains cumind or cumic aldehyde, a mixture off hydrocarbons,
cymene or cymol, terpene etc.
   Action             :  Seeds are carminative, aromatic, stomachic ,stimulant and astringent. seeds are cooling in effect.

55 Botany name : Curcuma amada
   Tamil name      : Maankaai inji
   Habit                :  Herb
   Parts used        : Rhyzome
   Constituents     : Essential oil, resin and aromatic organic acids.
   Action              : Carminative,cooling, aromatic, stomachic and astringent.

56 Botany name : Curcuma longa
   Tamil name      :  Manjal
   Habit                : Herb
   Parts used        : Tubers or rhizomes.
   Constituents     : An essential oil, and alkaloid, curcumine
turmeric oil and caproic acid.
   Action              : Aromatic, stimulant, tonic, and carminative,
juice is anthelmintic.

57 Botany name : Cyamopsis tetragonoloba
   Tamil name      : Koththavarai
   Habit                : Herb
   Parts used        : Pods, seeds,and foliage
   Constituents     : Rich in proteins
   Action               :  Bilios, rheumatic, antidote and cholagogue.

58 Botany name : Cyanotis cristata
   Tamil name      : Kuthirai kulambadi
   Habit                 :  Creeping herb
   Parts used        : Leaves root.
   Action              : Anti-rheumatic, deostruent,diuretic and
emollient.

59 Botany name : Cynodon dactylon
   Tamil name      : Arugambul
   Habit                :  Perennial grass
   Parts used        : Herb, root-stalk and leaves
Action          : Astringent, alterative, styptic, diuretic,
emollient, stomachic and referigerant.

60 Botany name : Cyperus rotandus
   Tamil name      : Koraikkizhangu
   Habit                : Herb
   Parts used       : Tuber or bulbous root.
   Action              :   Astringent, stimulant, diuretic, diaphoretic, demulcent, emmenagogue,
  vermifuge and lactagogue.

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