Suranjaan Kadwi /Suranjan Kadwi : Suranjan is Unani name of Colchicum luteum Baker. A type of lily plant with yellow flowers. It is found growing on grassy slopes in the temperate Himalayas, Afghanistan, and Turkestan.
The corm or rhizome of the plant are use for therapeutic purpose. Suranjaan Sweet Powder is a traditionally use for headache, gout, rheumatism, diseases of the liver, and spleen. In Afghanistan, the roots were use in preparation of a medicine Harantutiha.
Suranjaan Sweet Powder is the conical or gibbously avoid corm of Colchicum luteum Baker. The corm is enlarge underground stem bearing foliage leaves, sheathing leaves, and fibrous roots. It is off white to brownish white in color. The corm is flatten on one side, and the other side has a longitudinal groove in the middle extending throughout the length.
This species is globally distribute in Indo-Malaria. It is cultivate in tropical America, Africa and India. Within India, it has been record Assam, Meghalaya. West Bengal, in the coastal regions, from Maharashtra to Kerala and Tamil Nadu and in the Deccan Plateau and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is also cultivate in the areas of its occurrence for its nuts. Which are commercially important.
Suranjan Mithi Powder is Analgesic, Resolvent, Anti-inflammatory, Anti-rheumatic, Astringent, Cathartic, Anti-phlegmatic, Concoctive, alterative, Aphrodisiac, Carminative, Laxative, Desiccant, Local Irritant, Emetic, Anodyne, Purgative, Sedative, Diuretic and Soporific.
Suranjaan Sweet Powder is specially indicate in Gout, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Arthritis, Spasmodic Attacks, Wounds and Phlegmatic Affections. It is specially use to reduce the pain and inflammation of acute gout, arthritis and rheumatism. It is also useful in sexual debility. In some Unani texts it is also mention that, colchicum plant and its extracts are use to treat gout and related inflammatory disorders. It may also ameliorate hepatitis and cirrhosis, and may have potential in chemotherapeutic regimens.
Suranjaan Kadwi Benefits:
Suranjaan Sweet Powder is effective in the treatment of gout, and periodic diseases though the exact mechanism of action by which it works is not known. This phytochemical has anti-gout, and anti-inflammatory activities. It can be use as an option to relieve gout attacks for people who cannot take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for some reason. Suranjaan Sweet Powder is consider best remedies for acute gout pain. Suranjan Meetha is frequently prescribe in tablet form, and transdermal preparations containing Suranjan Mithi Powder are the subject of a Japanese patent. It is available in Homeopathy as tincture.