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Submitted by admin on Mon, 02/28/2022 - 11:37
Top Product Attributes

  • Common Name

    Arjuna

  • Botanical Name

    Terminalia arjuna

  • Part Used

    Bark

  • Clinical Summary

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  • Monograph

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  • Alcohol

    45%

  • Dose

    15 to 40mL weekly

As a renowned heart tonic arjuna is used extensively in heart diseases and related chest pain, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Arjuna bark is astringent and its blood coagulating properties are extremely useful in arresting bleeding as seen in menstrual disorders such as menorrhagia. It is also used for earaches, diseases of the urinary tract and diarrhoea. Externally it is used to improve fractures, wound healing and bleeding gums. 

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A guide to Arjuna and its properties

  • Traditional Use

    Arjuna is a popular Indian medicinal plant, its bark being used as a cardiotonic agent from time immemorial. This well-known heart tonic is used extensively in cardiac debility and is best known for its special properties of strengthening the muscles of the heart and subsequent improved pumping activity of the heart. It was Acarya Vagbhata, an influential classical writer of Ayurveda in the 7th Century, who indicated for the first time that arjuna was used for treating heart disease. 

  • Actions

    Cardioprotective, heart tonic, hypotensive, hypolipidaemic, inotropic (changes the force of the hearts contractions), antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, cytoprotective, antiulcer, apoptosis inducing, antidiabetic, antibacterial, antiviral, vulnerary, astringent, antipyretic, demulcent, expectorant, antidysenteric.

  • Indications

    •    Chronic cardiovascular diseases including chronic, stable angina, mild congestive heart failure, weakness of the heart, hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia and metabolic syndrome.
    •    Adjuvant during chemotherapy
    •    Antioxidant therapy in diabetes
    •    Gastric ulceration
    •    Difficulty in urination
    •    Diarrhoea
    •    General detoxification
    •    Menstrual disorders such as menorrhagia
    •    Topically to improve wound healing, bleeding gums

  • Energetics

    Bitter, cooling, pungent, light and dry. 

  • Use in Pregnancy

    Traditionally contraindicated during pregnancy.

  • Contraindications & Cautions

    None known

  • Drug Interactions

    It has been used concurrently with statins (cholesterol lowering drugs) with good results although information about interactions with long-term statin therapy is lacking.

  • Dietary Information

    Vegan friendly. Gluten and dairy free

  • Substitutes

    Hawthorn