Aparajita/Butterfly pea/Koyala - Health benefits, application, chemical constituents, side effects and many more

 

 Aparajita/Butterfly pea/Koyala


The perennial leguminous herb Clitoria ternatea (butterfly pea) has attracted significant interest based on its agricultural and medical applications, which range from use as a fodder and nitrogen fixing crop, to applications in food coloring and cosmetics, traditional medicine and as a source of an eco-friendly insecticide. 

It shows diuretic, nootropic, antiasthmatic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, antidiabetic, antilipidemic, anti-arthritic, antioxidant, and wound healing properties.

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It has different names in different languages such as English name(Butterfly pea, Clitoria, Mezereon, Winged leaved),  Marathi Name(Gokarni),  Hindi name(Koy..............................read more



Properties and Benefits 

  • Rasa – Katu (pungent), Tikta (Bitter), Kashaya (astringent)
  • Guna (qualities) – Laghu (lightness), Rooksha (dry)
  • Taste conversation after digestion – Katu (pungent)
  • Veerya (potency) – Sheetala (cold)
  • Effect on Tridosha – Balances all the three Doshas
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  • Medhya -Improves intelligence (specific effect)
  • Kanthya – Improves voice, good for throat
  • Vedana sthapana – pain reliever
  • bhedana – purgative
  • Sudrushtida – Improves vision, good for eyes
  • Kushta – Useful in skin dis..............................read more

Uses Remedies Benefits and Application 

1) Flower tea/concatenation is prepared, It is used for boosting immunity and reducing inflammation. It is useful in headache and joint disorders. 


2) Aparajita extracts and several isolated protein and peptide components shows anthelmintic,  insecticidal and the antimicrobial activities.

  • Proteins and peptides isolated from C. ternatea are reported to exhibit insecticidal properties.


3) 1 gram of aparajita flowers powder should be given thrice daily with honey for bleeding disorders of uterus.

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4) The flowers of aparajita are pounded with cow milk and applied over the closed eyes. It alleviates the conjunctivitis.

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5) Agad tantra is the sixth branch of ayurveda which mainly deals with agada i.e. the medicine with anti-poisonous effects. These antipoisonous drugs are prepared by combination of several drugs. Various medicinal plants are described in ayurveda which are used in the treatment of poisoning (Visha), one of them is aparajita.

  • In ayurvedic texts nine antipoisonous formulation (agada) containing aparajita are described. It can be concluded that aparajita is beneficial in the treatment of snake bite, spider bite, rat bite, insect bite, fish bite.


6) Aparajita flowers is a particularly sought after alternative to synthetic blue food colorants which have become increasingly disfavored due to health concerns. Studies reported that addition of C. ternatea extracts increased the polyphenolic and antioxidant contents.

  • The deep blue pigment of Aparajita has been particularly popular in Asia, where flower petals are used to color teas, deserts and clothes.


7) In bhavprakash nighantu, kaiyadev nighantu and sushruta samhita it is mentioned that aparajita is ‘vishapaha’ i.e. which eliminates poison. After getting entered into the body poison, vitiates all the tridosha. According to ayurvedic text, action of aparajita is tridoshghna. Hence it is effective in the treatment of poisoning.


8) Fine leaves paste of aparajita should be applied over the wound is beneficial as it has antifungal and anti bacterial properties greatly reduce the infection and heals the wound very fast.


9) Aparajita is a good natural tonic for the blood. The rasa composition helps to purify blood and improve skin conditions like boils, skin outbreaks, acne & pimples etc.


10) Recently an organic ethanolic extract prepared from C. ternatea vegetative tissue has shown promising insec..............................read more

          


Phytochemical constituents

Notable chemical components are anthocyanins which give C. ternatea flowers their characteristic blue color and cyclotides, ultra-stable macrocyclic peptides that are present in all tissues of this plant. The latter are potent insecticidal molecules and are implicated as the bioactive agents in a plant extract used commercially as an insecticide. 

The seeds contain palmitic acid (19%), stearic acid (10%), oleic acid (51-52%), linoleic acid (17%) and linolenic acid (4%). The caloric content of the seed is to be around 500cal/100g.

Of the known C. ternatea phytochemical components implicated in defense, a class of peptides known as cyclotides is particularly noteworthy.

The butelase-1 enzyme derived from C. ternatea pods is also creating a lot of interest as a biotechnological tool for peptide ligation and cyclization.

Nutritional analysis of C. ternatea flowers identified the percentage of protein, fibre, carbohydrate and fat to be 0.32, 2.1, 2.2 and 2.5% respectively while the moisture content was found to be 92.4%. The flower was also found to have high content of calcium (3.09 mg/g), magnesium (2.23 mg/g), potassium (1.25 mg/g), zin..............................read more



Note : 

1. Aparajita produces an extensive deep-root system, which enables the plant to survive up to 7–8 months of drought. The roots also produce large nodules for nitrogen fixation. Clitoria ternatea roots produce large round nodules known to house nitrogen-fixing bacteria, making the plant ideal for use in a crop rotation system. 



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