Day 001: Medicinal plants (Sweet flag)by Asmita Gaire | 04-11-2020 14:03 |
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 Day 1 Medicinal plant: 001 Introduction BOJHO is a indigenous medicinal plant to South Asian countries like Nepal, India and many others. The common name of BOJHO is sweet flag. Locally, it is called as BOJHO in Nepal. The scientific name of sweet flag is Acorus calamus. It belongs to Acoraceae family. Roots (Rhizome) are the major part used for medicines. It is used mainly in the treatment of cough. The fragrance of the oil of BOJHO is light and sweet. It is a little bit bitter at the same time with an odor quite hard to describe by relating other things, but it is unique. People are making an effort to make all-natural perfume centered calamus root oil. It is also called as German Ginger when used in crystalline form. It's root oil is used for fragnant, and it is also used as a spice. The root oil is obtained by distillation. The root oil act as anticonvulsant, antiarrhythmic and antiveratrinic. BOJHO extract are used as a source to treat asthma, cough and is also used as analgesic. It has antifungal activity too. Despite advantages, it has some contraindications. It has some carcinogenic or toxic substances that contributes to duodenum and liver cancer. So, it is not used incase of gastrointestinal problems. The compound for toxic effect is betaasarone. So, it is discontinued for gastrointestinal infections. Although it has good fragnant, it is not recommended to be used for long term aroma therapy. So far, incase of Bojho it has quite a very good effects on human system. Considering it's contraindications Bojho can be used to treat several respiratory infections including other state of diseases in human. Picture Source: https://images.app.goo.gl/DLfnDxCpxX27khwV7 |
