vamsalocana :

Phytochemistry:

The silicious substance found near the joint inside is a white camphor like crystalline in appearance, slightly sticky to the tongue and sweet in taste (Vaidya, 1982; Watt, 1972). Shoot has active constituents are Oxalic acid, reducing sugar, resins, waxes, HCN, benzoic acid (Ghosh et al., 1938), diferuloyl arabinoxylanhexasaccharide, diferuloyl oligosaccharide (Tadash, 1991), (5, 5’-di--(diferul-9, 9’-dioyl)-[α-Larabinofuranosyl-(1→3)-O-β-D-xylopyranosyl-9 (1→4) –D-xylopyranose] (taxiphyllin) (Leslic, 1978). Seed contain arginine, cysteine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylamine, threonine, valine, tyrosine, niacin, riboflavin, thiamine (Chatterjee and Pakrashi, 2001). Leaves mainly contain Protein, gluteline, contains lysine, methionine, betain, cholin, proteolytic enzyme, nuclease, urease (Chatterjee and Pakrashi, 2001).

PHARMACOLOGY:

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