Dr.

Vikas Saroch MD

Latin name Angelica glauca Family UMBELLIFERAE

Sanskrit: Sleshmak, Hindi:

It is a herb growing upto 4m . Height. Its flowers are purple in colour. It grows at 800 1000 ft. in himalayas.

The root occurs in small pieces , 2- 18 mm in diameter . Externally greyish brown . Internally it shows a yellow porous radiating wood with brown bark . Fracture is short and smooth. The odour is characteristically aromatic .

The root stock appears in smallvertical and thick pieces, 5 -20 cm long and 1.0 to 3.5 in diameter. Externally yellowish to greyish brown in colour . Fracture is hard and fibrous.

Isoimperatorin Prangplarin Angeolide Angelicolide Archangelin Oxypeucedanin

Rasa katu ,tikta Guna laghu , ruksha Virya usna Vipaka katu Karma kapha vata hara , hrdya , sanjnasthapaka

Vrana Krmi Kustha Kandu Angelica is used for asthma, bronchitis, anaemia, coughs, indigestion, arthritis and colds. Locally the roots are useful for cancer .

Rasnadi curna Mahapaisacika ghrita

DOSE : powder 1 3 gm

Choraka is a controversial drug , which has been considered under Granthiparna bheda. Some experts have regarded CHORAKA and STHUNEYAKA as the same plant. Granthiparna is an aromatic plant and Sthuneyaka is only slightly aromatic .