wat is Nishpava... a drug in ayurveda....

[Narasimha Murthy Soma]

can any body tell about a drug of Ayurveda... called Nishpava... with
details and photos...?

Dr.S.N.Murthy.
Pune.

[Dr Krishna Kishore]

Nishpava is one of the aahara dravya known tobe as pista locally available in the market having a good nutritive value and used as aphrodisiac sorry cudnt get the photographs of it

[Narasimha Murthy Soma]

thank you Dr Kishore... this is aahara drava.... no doubt. bt i want to know its exact botanical identity.

Dr.Murthy. S.N.

[NEETHU S.Mohan]

Sir;
Nishpava asper kerala ayurveda concepts considered as "Amara payar" edible pea; ie Cyamopsis tetragonolobus. According to the geographical specialities it nishpava  may b diffrnt for othrs.

[Dr. Naveen Kodlady]

Namaste all.

I am less expertized, but interested in botanicals. Hence would like to put only my search findings on Nishpava from reliable sources.

1. Materia Medica of Hindus by Udyog Chand Dutt considers Vigna catjang, Endl.(Syn. Dolichos sinensis, Linn.) http://chestofbooks.com/health/materia-medica-drugs
   
2. English translation of Sushruta Samhita by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna considers the same for it.http://chestofbooks.com/health/india/Sushruta-Samhita
3. KC Chunekar and KS Pandeya in their commentary to Bhavaprakasha consider it as Dolichos lablab
4. FRLHT database  has considered both the legumes under Nishpava (Dolichos lablab http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1274&parname=1273, Vigna catjang http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2186&parname=2202.)
   

Cowpea: Vigna catjang
Lobia (Hindi), Alasande (Kannada), Payar (Malayalam), Chavli (Marathi),  Karamani (Tamil), Bobbarlu (Telugu)

Fieldbean: Dolichos lablab
Val (Hindi), Avare (Kannada), Moang (Kashmiri), Avara (Malayalam), Mochai (Tamil), Chikkudu (Telugu), Other names: Kadumal, Hyacinth bean

It is shukranashaka ( Hence NOT aphrodisiac), and pitta and rakta kopaka (B.P).

Best Regards,

Naveen Kodlady,

GAU, Jamnagar

[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Dear Murthy ji...

Thanks a lot for the post. This seems to be an interesting discussion on the plant drug Nishpava...Thanks to krishna Kishore ji, Neethu ji and Naveen ji for sharing your views on the plant drug. Expecting further more views on the same plant. 

Also i request the members kindly not to include photographs downloaded from the Internet. As they may be copyright protected and would be unlawful. Instead the URL links to the pages containing those photographs could be provided. 

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[Narasimha Murthy Soma]

Thank you Hari and also my thanks to all those who have posted their views...

Dr.Murthy.

Pune.

[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Dear Murthy ji...

after a detailed review on the drug Nishpava (निष्पावा), would like to add a few more points here. As per the explanations in the Nighantu Bhava prakasha (BPN), we could find a few synonyms which denotes the drug based on its Morphology. Bhavamishra uses the terms Raajashimbi (राजशिम्बी) - which means the legume should be larger in size. He also uses the term Shwetha shimbi (श्वेत शिम्बी), which denotes that the legume should be white coloured or pale in its appearance. 

keeping these names together in mind along with the key point that i could derive from Naveen ji's post which mentions the name in Kannada as Alasande a very commonly used vegetable here. The synonyms used in BPN very well goes with this vegetable Alasande as the fruits are extra large in size and the colour is pale green. Finally could derive the Botanical name for this plant to be Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis.  Sesquipedalis means one-and-a-half foot long. In English it is named as Yardlong bean (meaning the fruit measures one yard. This explanation helps to equate the plant to the synonym Rajashimbi mentioned in BPN.  A link to the Wikipedia page has been given here for reference. 

Link 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigna_unguiculata_subsp._sesquipedalis

 Also a photograph of the pale fruits of the above species could be seen in the following link which also specifies the name Alasande in Kannada in the description part. 

Link 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpea

Hope this post would be of some use to you Murthy ji and other friends. 

Will post the photographs of the market available fruits later. 

Thanks and regards