Baliospermum montanum - Seeds

Hindi name - Danti, Hakum, Hakun

Bengali name - Danti, Hakun
Gujarati name - Dantimul, Jamalgota
Marathi name - Danti
Telugu name - Ettadungida, Kanakapata
Tamil name - Kattamaraku, Niradimutta
Malayalam name - Dantika, Katalavanakku, Nagadanti

Description:

Baliospermum montanum is a stout under-shrub 0.9-1.8m in height with herbaceous branches from the roots. Leaves are simple, sinuate-toothed, upper ones small, lower ones large and sometimes palmately 3-5 lobed. Flowers are numerous, arranged in axillary racemes with male flowers above and a few females below. Fruits are capsules, 8- 13mm long and obovoid. Seeds are ellipsoid smooth and mottled

Root in the medicinal part which is used in constipation, abdominal pain, general anasarca, piles, calculus, helminthic infections, scabies, dermic affections, suppurative ulcers and diseases caused by the morbidity of kapha and pitta. Root paste is applied to painful piles and swellings. Leaves are used in the treatment of asthma and seeds are used in snakebite.

Health Benefits:

Danti is a blood purifier and paste of danti roots and seeds are used to reduce edema and pain.

It acts as analgesics to relieve pain.

Seed paste is also applied in the poisoning of snake bites.

Danti leaves are found to be very beneficial for the sufferers of jaundice.

Seeds and root powder of this herb is used to relieve constipation and it is best used for patients of piles

A decoction of Leaves is used to treat asthma and bronchitis by pacifying kapha dosha. A paste of danti leaves is applied for quick healing of wounds.

Roots of this herb are pungent, heating and diuretic in nature. It is also used in hemorrhoids, abdominal tumors, and an enlarged spleen.