दर्भद्वयं त्रिदोषघ्न मधुरं तुवरं हिमम ।
मूत्रकृछ्रश्मरीतृष्णाबस्तीरुक प्रदराश्मजित ।।
Botanical Name : Imperata Cylindrica Linn.
Classification:
According To Modern
Kingdom – Plantae
Order – Poales
Family – Poaceae
According To Ayurveda
Charak- Mutravirecaniya varga
Stanyajanana varga
Sushruta- varunadi gana
Tranapancamula
Bhavprakash- Guducyadi varga
Other Names :
Common name: Daabh
- Assamese: Kush
- Bengali: Kush
- Hindi: Dabh, Davoli, Durva, Dabhena
- Kannada: kusha, dharbe
- Malayalam: darbha, darbhappullu
- Marathi: Darbha, Daabh
- Sanskrit: barhi, darbha, darbhah, durbha,yajnamula,Ulu,kutuka,kharadarbha,swetadarbha
- Tamil: darbhaipul, taruppai, acamantakam
- Telugu: aswalayana, dabha, darbha
- Urdu: bikh dab
General Information :
Habit – a perennial shrub grows up to 6 ft. in height. Root- thick and scaly root stock, creeping on the ground sends out rhizomes in all directions. Culms are erect, terete thin bases are covered with shining yellow sheaths. Leaf – arise from the root stock, long linear. Inflorescence – Panicle, 15 to 45 cm long, bears pale brown spikelets having very small florests upto 30 in number, florets are white or silky and dense.
Types Of Plant’s :
Nighantu
Darbha, Kusha
Properties (Gunadharma)
Rasa- Madhura,Kashayaya
Vipak-Madhura
Virya- Sheeta
Guna-Laghu, Shigdha.
Specific Parts :
Root
Doshaghnata :
Tridoshamak.
Shloka’s :
दर्भद्वयं त्रिदोषघ्न मधुरं तुवरं हिमम ।
मूत्रकृछ्रश्मरीतृष्णाबस्तीरुक प्रदराश्मजित ।।
Benefits :
Internal : being stambhana & trishnanigrahana, it is used in trishna, raktapitta, raktatisara & raktapravahika. Also in stanyakshaya being stanyajanana. It is useful in raktapradara being raktastambhana. It is also useful in mootrakrichhra & ashmari.
Urinary tract infection :
Take 5 gram Kusha root. Grind. Dip in one glass of water and shuffle. Drink it twice a day.
Leucorrhoea :
Take 3 to 4 gram Kusha root. Grind it with rice water (Boiled). It cures Leucorrhoea
Mutrakrichra ( Dysuria )
Curna ( Powder ) of Phala (Ficus carica) vrschira (Trianthema portulacastrum), Darbha (Imperata Cylindrica) and silajatu (Bitumen) if taken with water, wine, sugarcane juice & decoction of Darbha (Imperata cylindrica) is beneficial in Mutrakrichra (Dysuria).
Vataja Jwara (Fever due to Vata)
Decoction prepared from bala (Sida cordifolia), Darbha (Imperata cylindrica) & swadamstra (Tribulus terrestris) if taken with sugar and ghee alleviates vataja jwara (Fever due to vata).
Formulation (Kalp) :
Name Indication
Kusavalehya prameha, aruci
Kusadya ghrita paittikka asmari
Trinapancamuladi kwatha mutravikara
Dosage :
Quatha – 50 to 100 ml.
Research Corner :
A comparative study of the roots, rhizomes and leaves of an iron hyperaccumulator plant, imperata cylindrical, isolated from the banks of an extreme acidic environment , using complementary techniques : Mosbauer spectroscopy (MS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled to energy-dos[ersove x-ray microanalysis (EDAX) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has shown that two main biominerals, jarosite and ferrihydrate-ferritin, accumulate in the different tissues.
