Pharmacognosy of Prunus laurocerasus Linn-A Homoeopathic Drug

Authors

P Rao, Drug Standardisation Unit, Hyderabad
K Reddy, Drug Standardisation Unit, Hyderabad
H Gupta, Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, New Delhi

Keywords

homoeopathy

Article Type

Original Article

Abstract

Prunus laurocerasus L., a shrub belonging to family Rosaceae, is a well known drug in homoeopathy. Leaves are used as an antispasmodic, in heart diseases, for relief in nausea and as an ingredient in eye lotions. The leaves are coriaceous, dark green above and pale beneath, shortly petiolate; epidermal cells have distinctly thick, curved to wavy and sinuate sides; hypostomatic with anomocytic and anisocytic types of stomata. The mesophyll and midvein ground tissue possess characteristic sphaeraphidal idioblasts. Typical aerenchyma is present in ground tissue of leaf midvein and petiole. A layer of endodermis encloses the median arcuate vascular bundle of midvein and petiole.

Digital Object Identifier

10.53945/2320-7094.1792

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd.

How to cite this article

Rao P, Reddy K, Gupta H. Pharmacognosy of Prunus laurocerasus Linn-A Homoeopathic Drug. Indian J Res Homoeopathy 2008;2:6-9. doi: 10.53945/2320-7094.1792