Product Profile of Silicon Based Aromatic Bans Oil

Silicon based Aromatic Bans Oil is made from the siliceous concretions of young-shrubs, bark, root and flowers. The Aromatic Bans Oil contains silica in 90% or silicon as hydrate of silicic acid, peroxide of iron, potash, lime, alumina and vegetable matter. The Aromatic Bans Oil is used clinically for the treatment of praincha and given in combination with other drugs, relieves burning sensation. The Silicon based Aromatic Bans Oil is also useful to children with cough and asthma.

Applications of the Silicon based Aromatic Bans Oil:

• The young shoots contain 0.3 per cent hydrocyanic acid and are lethal to mosquito larvae.

• Used clinically for the treatment of praincha and given in combination with other drugs, relieves burning sensation.

• It is also useful to children with cough and asthma.

• A decoction of bamboo joints is said to increase the flow of lochia after delivery.

• The juice of leaves with aromatics is given in haematemesis

• Older and dried stems of bamboo are used as splints in fracture

• Young shoots of the bamboo made into poultice is an efficacious application for dislodgement of worms from ulcers of cattle

• Juice is poured on the vermin and the liquid mass applied and secured by a bandage.

• Vansalochanam is a stimulant and a tonic used in asthma, tuberculosis, jaundice, leprosy, anaemia and other vata rogas.

• In combination with other astringent medicines it is also given in chronic dysentery and internal haemorrhage.

• Sitopaladi churna is given in tuberculosis with honey.

• In urinary retention vansalochanam is used with rice water and sugar.




Key Features of Silicon Based Aromatic Bans Oil

• Contains silica 90% or silicon as hydrate of silicic acid, peroxide of iron, potash, lime, aiumina and vegetable matter
• The grains of the plant contain water in 11.0%, starch in 73.1%, albuminoids in 11.86%, fibre in 1.7% and ash in 1.2%
• The young shoots containing cyanogenic glyposide arepoisonous
• The glycoside is hydrolysed by an enzyme also present in the shoots when they are cut and soaked in water