Gajapippali
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Other Names : Scindapsus officinalis, Hastitippali, Gajapippal, Baripippli, Gajapippaly, Attitippali-അട്ടിതിപ്പലി, Aanatippali-ആനതിപ്പലി, Gajatippali-ഗജതിപ്പലി
Gajapippali is a large climber vine; grow up to 25 feet long. Stems are thick branches are wrinkled. Leaves are big, and size of 12.5 to 25 cm and 6 to 15 cm broad, ovate, acuminate and dark green. The fruits are berries, elongated, greenish yellow, few and fleshy. Seeds are ovate.
Health Benefits and Uses of Gajapippali
- Fruits are the most important part of S. officinalis (Roxb.) Schott (Gaj-pipali) and accepted in both Unani and Ayurveda for its known properties. Fruits are pungent in taste, used to sharp hearing, regulating the bowels, appetizer, galactagogue, stimulant, carminative, diaphoretic, anthelmintic, antiprotozoal, antidiarrheal, intestinal colic in horse, tuberculosis, azoena, cancer, cholera, pneumonia, scabies, syphilis and bronchitis, hypoglycemic.
- Fruit decoction is used for asthma, bronchitis, diarrhea, and also as an expectorant.
- dysentery
- throat problems
- rheumatism : Fruit pulp is applied externally in rheumatism.
- The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India recommends dried pieces of mature female spadix in dyspnea.
- It is also considered as atonic and diuretic.
- The fruit of Gaj-pipali is an ingredient of preparation “Chandraprabha” tablets and “Ma’jun Jograj Gugul churna” which is used as a Nervine tonic and anticatarrhal. It is also useful in facial paralysis and general paralysis.
- The fruit of Gaj-pipali is an ingredient of the Ayurvedic preparation which is prescribed for Vatavikara, obesity (Medoroga and allied complaints), and obstinate urinary disorders including diabetes.
- It is useful in vitiated conditions of vata and kapha, diarrhea, cough, bronchitis, asthma, worm infestations, rheumatism, pharyngopathy, and helminthiasis.
- Cancer : ethyl acetate and methanol extract from the fruits of S. officinalis possesses an antitumor activity, which is confirmed by the brine shrimp lethality bioassay, various human carcinoma cell lines, and the rodent model of cancer. The biochemical investigational report of lipid peroxidation, GST, GPX, SOD, and catalase levels also shows that the plant possesses an antioxidant activity. Further investigations have to be carried out in isolation and the characterization of active constituents and the mechanism involved in the antitumor and cytotoxic effect is needed.
Used in Patent medicine
- Kumaryasavam
- Devdarvadi Kashaya
- Prasarani Kuzhambu
- Bahushala
- Gudapippali
- Madana Kameswari Lehyam
- Mathala Rasayanam
- Shiva Gutika
- Kubja Prasarini
- Chandraprabha Vati
- Ma’jun Jograj Gugul churna
