Priyangu

TRADITIONAL VIEW, WITH SAFETY LIMITS

What the texts say Priyangu does

• Raktastambhana — checks bleeding (haemostatic)
• Grahi — digestive that absorbs excess fluid and binds the stool
• Dahaprashamana — relieves burning
• Vranaropana — heals wounds
• Varnya — improves complexion

What the evidence says. Traditional use is extensive and long recorded. Modern clinical evidence is limited.

Side effects and limits

• Digestive upset
• Constipation from the tannins

Avoid or ask first: Pregnancy.

A traditional classification, not a recommendation. The full safety record is below.

AS THE CLASSICAL TEXTS AND THE API PRESCRIBE

Classical raktastambhana; used in Pushyanuga churna.

Reported from Sharangadhara Samhita and the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India. Laisha states what the texts prescribe; it does not recommend. No quantity here is adjusted for a particular person — not for agni, koshtha, bala, age, pregnancy, kidney or liver function, or anything already being taken.

Tikta, kashaya and madhura with sheeta virya and katu vipaka.

These are the actions the classical texts record. They are statements about what the tradition holds, and this library does not restate them as findings about a human body.

Phalini, the fruitful one, names the heavy fruit clusters. Several paryaya are feminine words, which reflects that the dravya is named almost entirely in women's formulations.

Rasa, guna, virya, vipaka and karma are recorded as the classical texts give them, with the text and section named so a student can open the book and check. Where an exact chapter and verse could not be confirmed, this library names the section rather than inventing a number.

Prunus mahaleb seed is sold as Priyangu across north India and in Unani practice, where it is Habbul mihlab, and it is an unrelated family. Aglaia roxburghiana is used in the south. Because all three are used in similar formulations, the market rarely distinguishes them, and a student should know the pharmacopoeia names Callicarpa while the shop may not.

Matched live against the GBIF backbone on 28 September 2026 at 99 per cent confidence. Priyangu is another name over more than one plant: Callicarpa macrophylla is the pharmacopoeial source, while Prunus mahaleb and Aglaia roxburghiana are used regionally.

A WAY TO REMEMBER IT

Callicarpa is kallos (beauty) + karpos (fruit) — beautiful-fruit, and the violet berries deserve it. Macrophylla means large-leaved.

Priyangu is described in the Bhavaprakasha Nighantu and named in the classical literature for bleeding. That is what the tradition holds and where it is written down, not a finding about what the flower does in a body.

Constituents. The plant carries flavonoids, terpenoids and tannins. Composition differs entirely between the three plants traded under the name.

• This is a study and clinical reference for practitioners and students. The matra and anupana it records are what the classical texts and the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India PRESCRIBE — Laisha reports them, it does not recommend them. They are not a prescription for any particular person, and they are not adjusted for your age, agni, koshtha, bala, pregnancy, kidney or liver function, or anything else you are already taking. Only a qualified practitioner who has examined you can do that.
• Traditional classification is recorded as what the classical texts say, with the text and the place in it named so it can be checked. It is not restated as a finding about a human body.
• Nothing here replaces a qualified Ayurvedic practitioner or a doctor.