TRIBULIS TERRESTRIS - A DRUG FOR CHRONIC CYSTITIS.
Tribulus terrestris L.-Zygophyllaceae –is an annual prostrate herb with many slender, spreading branches and silky-villous young parts; leaves abruptly simple, pinnate, opposite, leaflets almost sessile, rounded or oblique at the base, mucronate at the apex, flowers bright yellow, solitary, pseudo-axillary or leaf-opposed; fruits, a 5-angled or winged spinous tuberculate woody schizocap, separating into five cocci, each coccus having two long, stiff, sharp divaricate spines towards the distal half and two shorter ones nearer the base; seeds one or more in each coccus. It is distributed throughout India as a weed along roadsides and waste places.

The whole plant is used for the preparation of Homeopathic Mother Tincture. The action of the drug is clinically verified on chronic cystitis – difficult and painful urination – burning pain while urination – scanty urination with edema etc., and found it is effective in curing the chronic cystitis.


Chemical compounds:Trubulus terrestris contains – kaempferol, quercetin, neohecogenin glucoside, tribulosin, tigogenin, hecogenin, gitogenin, diosgenin, ruscogenin, dihydroxy spirosteroidal sapogenin, terrestroside etc.

 

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