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  • श्वॆतपुष्पः
  • श्वॆतपुष्पःसैरॆयः
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  • श्वॆतपुष्पा अपराजिता
  • श्वॆतमूला
  • श्वॆतमारिषः
  • श्वॆतराजिः
  • श्वॆतसारः
  • श्वॆतात्रिवृत्
  • श्वदंष्ट्रा
  • शैवलं
  • शैवालं
  • शशिलॆखा
  • शष्पं
  • शस्यशम्बरः

    • Name - श्वॆतकरवीरः

    Botanical name - Nerium indicum

    Description - Erect woody shrubs or small trees. Leaves whorled, linear- lanceolate. Flowers red, white or sometimes yellow. Follicles nearly parallel

    Chemical Constituents- Seeds contain stropeside, odorobioside A, B and H, digitalinum verum, odorobioside G, odorobioside K, anhydrodigitalinum verum, odorobioside D, odorotrioside K and odoroside G. Leaves contain cardenolide triosides gentiobiosyl nerigoside, gentiobiosyl beaumontoside, gentiobiosyl oleandrin, neriumol, nerifol, pregnane glucosides - neriaside and oleoside A, B, C, D, E, F. Extract of leaves contains flavonoid compounds, cardiotonic glucosides, rutin, principal cardiac glycoside glucooleandrin. Leaves contain deacetyloleandrin, adynerin, neriantin, neritaloside, urechitoxin. Leaves, flowers and bark contain neriin. Flowers contain rutin, quercetrin and quercetin. Seeds contain adigoside and 18 compounds. Bark contains scopoletin and scopolin, tannin, essential oil and fixed oil. Root contains glucoside, phenolic compounds and small amount of essential oil and resinous matter.

    Use - The whole plant is poisonous. Roots are powerfully resolvent and attenuant used externally as a paste and in Venereal sores, skin diseases and leprosy.. Glucoside odorin causes paralysis and respiratory depression in rhodents. Roots resolvent and attenuant. Oil from root bark used in skin diseases of scaly nature.