Since anti-coagulants are used for the cardiac problems. So instead of relying on Aspirin or other blood thinners, can we shift to herbal medicine, which will be safer as compared to their chemical counterpart?
You are absolutely right. My point was safer and not the safest. Even food sometimes causes poisoning which we all know as "FOOD POISONING". Plants have also side effects but it is lesser as compared to chemical substances. I am not saying that we should replace the blood thiners with the plant based medicine but research in this sector may lead us to some safer place. Safety is the priority and other things come secondary to it
According to Ayurveda so many plants are mentioned which having anti-coagulant properties but like Aspirin. The concept of "RASA" mean taest is very cl;early mentioned in Ayurveda. Out of six taest i.e.Sweet,Pungent,Bitter, Acid,Astrigent, Saline Taest. All rasa having its own properties. All Pungent taest plants have anti coagulant properties but not specific. If anti coagulant property we need in realation with heart then Allium sativum is a plant of choce along with Terminalia arjuna,Moringo oleifera,Plumbago zeylenica etc.
I am multi-infected with borrelia, yersinia and other zoonotic germs. Because the germs formed a biofilm an antibiotic treatment don´t work. Therefore I take herbal remedies, which thinner the blood and which may be destroy a biofilm like an anti-coagulant. The mixed herbs are Rehmannia radix preparata, Tropaeoli herba, Gymnostemmae pentaphyli herba and Andrographitis herba in differents amounts. All the herbs are spezified in the Meteria Medica of Chenise Medicine.
Many herbal medicines considered as anti-coagulant in Traditional Persian Medicine. These include thyme(Zataria), ginger, garlic, chicory root, cinnamon, licorice, login, etc.
Thanks for your question. In TPM, thyme, ginger and garlic considered as blood thinners and are warm in temperament. These herbs are usually safe in recommended dose and do not increase the anti-coagulant activity of warfarin.
Basically the medicine in AYUSH are divided into Animal origin, Plant origin and Mineral origin. And all the medicine described in old classics of Ayurveda, Unani or Siddha work wonders if taken properly under medical supervision.
Medicinal plants have been used for treatment of human ailments since ancient times. Literature review shows that many plants such as Thymus vulgaris, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba taub, Pulmonaria officinalis and Cinnamomum cassia, Careya arborea, Melastoma malabathricum Linn., Gloriosa superba, Bauhinia forficata, Eichhornia crassipes, Jatropha curcas L., Synclisia scabrida, Porana volubilis, Viola yedoensis Makino and Erigeron canadensis etc have anti-coagulant activity.
Article Anti-coagulant activity of plants: mini review
Article Anticoagulant activity of some Artemisia dracunculus leaf extracts
Mohammed Yasir sahib, thank you for your response......
Is there any reference in this regard. As far as I know Garlic has some reference but Kalonji and Zafran, I doubt. Even when we tried in the lab Garlic also proved very less anticoagulant.
Sir ,The three medicinal plants with recognized anticoagulant effect, including Terminalia bellirica, Astragalus arbusculinus, and Origanum vulgare, are suitable candidates to be considered as candidate herbal medicines in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and strokes
for more sir, I found these details from 2 of these articles u can check for ur reference
Papya fruit, Ginger, garlic, darchini, arjunchal, gugul, kalonji, sarphuka, all blood purifiers musaffiyat with har temperament might work as of unani system of medicine. Although medicine with har temperament p will work as blood thinner or as anticoagulant.
As per Ayurveda Blood tissues among seven major structural components of the body usually imbalances due to pitta increased the volume of blood. so medicines described in Rasa tarangini for the Bleeding disorder could be helpful.
Kindly find the article for herbs & minerals for the treatment of Bleeding disorder.
Terminalia arjuna was studied as a anticoagulant in Ajmal Khan Tibbiya college, AMU, Aligarh. You can refer dept. of Moalajat in this regard because the paper is not available online.
Sharique Zafar Shah Sahib, those are still unexplored scientifically, that is why I started this discussion way back in 2013 (You can see the date on the question).....
Needs thorough research....
The mention in Classic texts are to be validated......
By the way, thank you for your comments and taking interest in discussion....
@Younis Munshi Sir while working on effect of Munzij in cases of stroke I found a study by Tognolini M et al, mentioning Foeniculum vulgare (Badyan) essential oil showed antithrombotic activity preventing the paralysis induced by collagen-epinephrine intravenous injection.