Tayyebi: Endowed with the rich heritage of Tibb-e-Unani

Salab Misri (Orchis mascula) (Salep Orchid)

Pharmacological action: Mucilaginous, demulcent, aphrodisiac.
Medicinal use: Effective in nervous debility, weakness, loss of libido, nocturnal emissions and spermatorrhea. Increases the quantity of seminal fluid and acts as tonic for muscles and blood vessels. Provides nutrition to the body.

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Sana Maki (Cassia senna) (Senna)

Pharmacological action: Cathartic, blood purifier, anthelmintic.
Medicinal use: Effective in purging malhumors from the body, relieving fever, rheumatism, backache, sciatica, gout. Regarded as an effective blood purifier and therefore prescribed in chronic skin ailments. Also effective in loss of appetite, constipation and liver complaints.

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Sandal Safed (Santalum album) (Sandal)

Pharmacological action: Tonic for vital organs, disinfectant for respiratory and urogenital organs.
Medicinal use: Effective in fever, thirst, body heat, tachycardia, palpitation, inflamed swellings, headaches, skin diseases, itching, pimples, chronic cough, gonorrhea.

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Sapistan (Cordia dichotoma) (Sebestan plum)

Pharmacological action: Demulcent, lubricant and tonic, expectorant.
Medicinal use: Effective in dry cough, flu, fever, bronchitis. Emollient for pharynx and larynx and expectorant of phlegm and catarrh. Alleviates thirst and body heat, and reduces irritation in urinary passage. Clears the blood of phlegmatic particles.

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Shaqaqal Misri (Asparagus adscendens) (Garden Asparagus)

Pharmacological action: Aphrodisiac, antidiarrheal, antispasmodic, diuretic.
Medicinal use: Effective in genito-urinary complaints such as seminal weakness, impotence, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, gonorrhea. Also used for dyspepsia, flatulence and diarrhea.

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Shatara (Fumaria indica) (Fumitory)

Pharmacological action: Blood purifier, tonic and sedative, diuretic.
Medicinal use: Effective in purging malhumours from the body and in chronic ailments like syphilis, scrofula and leprosy. Purifies blood and regarded as a tonic for stomach, and reduces fever.

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Soya (Anethum graveolens) (Dill)

Pharmacological action: Carminative, resolvent, diuretic, emmenagogue.
Medicinal use: Effective in flatulence, colic and abdominal pains, rheumatic and other swellings of the joints.

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Sunbul Teeb (Valeriana officianalis) (True Valerian)

Pharmacological action: Nervine and hepatic tonic.
Medicinal use: Effective in disorders of spinal marrow, nervous debility, weak reflexes, nervous disorders during menopause. Also used in insomnia, neurosis, hysteria and epilepsy.

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