Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- ताम्बूलताम्बूलवल्लीनागवल्ली
- Hindi
- पानतांबूलपान का पत्तानागरबेल
- English
- Tambulabetel leafpaantambula
- Romanized
- tambulapaanpan
- Marathi
- विड्याचे पान
Ayurvedic properties
Only the qualities the text states are listed. The claims below give each statement with its source.
- Actions
- RuchyaSvaryaMukha shodhana
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Properties1
Chewing betel is said to increase happiness, good fortune, fragrance, contentment, lustre, cheerfulness and pleasant desire; it keeps the face bright, the mind content and the mouth moist, is held to be the ornament of the mouth, brings a sweet voice and redness of the mouth, destroys many diseases, creates desire for food and cleans the mouth after meals, so it is always to be used. The verse also calls it worthy of honour and the ornament of ornaments.
Preparation1
The juice of tambula (betel) is one of five plant juices said always to make mercury pass into the kinds of metal.
Contraindications1
Betel is to be avoided by those with raktapitta, fever or consumption, the very emaciated, one just given a purgative, those with diarrhoea, hunger or thirst, insanity or painful urination, one who has drunk milk, and one drunk with liquor.
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2Conditions mentioned with it
8Conditions named in the preparations that use it, or linked to it directly.
Organs and systems mentioned
1Other ingredients used together
9Count of shared preparations.
Topics of the text that discuss it
7Questions and answers
1Plant glossary entries
3Where else is this mentioned?
Named 7 times on 3 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 19Chapter 2… कुट व पज्ञ, नीलकमल आदि के समूहों से अलंकृत रहते हों, जहाँ लम्बी-लम्बी ताम्बूल लतायें हों, सर्वत्र धान, उडद आदि हों, बडे-बडे इक्षु वाटिकाअों के समूह …
- Book page 76Chapter 6×5कल्याणकारके / रसायनविधि: 76 तांबूल भक्षण गुण सैख्यं भाग्यं सैरभं सुप्रसादं। कांतिं प्रल्हादं कामुकत्वं स …
- Book page 578Chapter 24… ्रलेपवशतो व्याप्नोति बबिेंष्वपि॥ yz॥ भावार्थ : मोथा, पलाश, गोरखमुणडी, तांबूल व दूधिया वृक्ष इन पाँच वृक्षों के रस सदा धातु भेदों के संक्रामक है। इ …
Questions and answers
What senses does the glossary give for नाग?
Tin, lead, नागकेशर, the पुन्नाग tree, मोथा, पान, poison, बचनाग, अभ्रक, नागबला, मेदा and ivory, among others.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The commentary reads verse 14, which names body unguent (aṅgarāga), as part of the betel section; see method_angaraga_p148. The verse of 16 reads अतिकृच्छ्र, which the commentary takes as मूत्रकृच्छ्र.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Herb
- Categories
- LeafAromatic
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 3
- Chapters
- Chapter 6Chapter 24
- Extraction tasks
- T04, T27
- Record id
- ingredient_tambula