Witnessed by: Unani
Jadwar (Delphinium denudatum), of the Ranunculaceae family. Erect perennial herb of the high Himalayan slope with palmately cut leaves and a spike of blue spurred flowers; native range: the temperate western Himalaya from Kashmir to Kumaon, between about two and four thousand metres. Globally recognized as jadwar · nirbisi in Urdu, zadwar in Persian, nirbishi · jadwar in Hindi, and jadwar, Himalayan larkspur in English. The part used is root. Short, hard, greyish-brown crooked roots, tuberous and wrinkled; the taste bitter and faintly acrid, without the tingling numbness of the true aconites.
In this cross-tradition database, we analyze how this substance operates across world medicine systems — tracking its traditional tastes, temperatures, tissue affinities, post-digestive effects, and planetary correspondences across Ayurveda, Unani, and Western herbalism.
JADWAR
IDENTITY
Name
- Common
- jadwar
- Scientific name
- Delphinium denudatum Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
Form
- Part used
- root
PROPERTIES
Nature
Taste
how the plant declares itself on the tongue
- Unani
- bitter · acrid
Temperature
- Unani
- hot (2nd degree)
Affinity
where in the body it travels
Organs / channels
- Unani
- brain · nerves · heart · stomach
PRACTICE
Virtue
Actions
- Unani
- tiryaq (antidote to poisons and to snake-bite), muqawwi-e-dimagh (brain and nerve tonic), muqawwi-e-qalb (cardiac tonic), daf-e-taffun (antiseptic), musakkin-e-alam (analgesic), muqawwi-e-asab (nervine restorative), daf-e-tashannuj (antispasmodic)
Cautions
- Contraindications
- hot temperaments and hot conditions; pregnancy
- Toxicity
- the genuine root is of low toxicity in the doses used, but the name is the danger: bazaar 'jadwar' has more than once proved to be an aconite root, and the drug must be identified before it is given
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