Ausgewählte Texte aus der Carakasaṃhitā

Anhang A: Pflanzenbeschreibungen

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.

zusammengestellt von Alois Payer

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Carakasaṃhitā: Ausgewählte Texte aus der Carakasaṃhitā / übersetzt und erläutert von Alois Payer <1944 - >. -- Anhang A: Pflanzenbeschreibungen. -- Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. -- Fassung vom 2007-07-27. -- URL: http://www.payer.de/ayurveda/pflanzen/hibiscus_rosasinensis.htm

Erstmals publiziert: 2007-07-27

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Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.

lat. hibiscum = Hibiscus; lat. rosa = Rose, neulat. sinensis = chinesisch

Malvaceae - Malvengewächs

"The Chinese hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, family Malvaceae) is an evergreen shrub native to East Asia, also known as China rose and Shoe flower. It is widely grown as an ornamental plant throughout the tropics and subtropics. The flowers are large, red, firm, but lack any scent. Numerous cultivars, varieties, and hybrids have been created, with flower colours ranging from white through yellow and orange to scarlet and shades of pink, with both single and double sets of petals. Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is the national flower of Malaysia, called the Bunga Raya in Malay and "Sembaruthi" in Tamiland mamdaram inTelugu(మందారం). The flowers are used to shine shoes in parts of India, as well as for the worship of Devi. Hibiscus flowers are also used for hair care. Species of hibiscuses are the state flowers of two regions of the USA - the State of Hawaii and the territory of Puerto Rico." (Wikipedia)

sanskrit:

japā (Kāmasūtra IV,1,7)

Bhāvaprakāśa:

oḍrapupa
japā
trisandhyā

dt. Chinesischer Roseneibisch

engl. China Hibiscus, Rose of China

Bhāvaprakāśa: I, S. 289

Pandey: I, 831ff.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscus_rosa-sinensis. -- Zugriff am 2007-06-01

ausführlich: http://www.payer.de/ayurveda/pflanzen/hibiscus_rosasinensis.htm

Abb.: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. = Chinesischer Roseneibisch
[Bildquelle: Wikipedia]

Drury:

"Hibiscus Rosa sinensis (Linn.) Do.
Shoe-flower plant, or China Rose, Eng. Schempariti, Mal. Sapatoo cheddie. Tam. Dasanie, Tel. Jasoon, Duk. Juva, Beng.

Description.—Shrub, 12-15 feet; stem arborescent, without prickles; leaves ovate, acuminated, coarsely toothed, and slightly cut towards the apex, entire at the base; pedicels axillary, as long as, or longer than, the leaves, jointed above their middle ; involucel 6-7 leaved ; calyx tubular, 5-cleft; flowers large, single or double, crimson, yellow, or white; seeds unknown. Fl. All the year.—W.& A. Prod. i. 49.—Rheede, ii. t. 16.—Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 194.------Peninsula. Cultivated in gardens.

Medical Uses.—The leaves are considered in Cochin China as emollient and slightly aperient. The flowers are used to tinge spirituous liquors, and the petals when rubbed on paper communicate a bluish-purple tint, which forms an excellent substitute for litmus-paper as a chemical test. The leaves are prescribed by the natives in smallpox, but are said to check the eruption too much.— (Don. Ainslie.) An infusion of the petals is given as a demulcent refrigerant drink in fevers.—Pharm. of India.

Economic Uses.—In China they make these handsome flowers into garlands and festoons on all occasions of festivity, and even in their sepulchral rites. The petals of the flowers are used for blacking shoes, and the women also employ them to colour their hair and eyebrows black. They are also eaten by the natives or pickles."

[Quelle: Drury, Heber <1819 - 1872>: The useful plants of India : with notices of their chief value in commerce, medicine, and the arts. -- 2d ed. with additions and corrections. London : Allen, 1873. -- xvi, 512 p. ; 22 cm. -- s.v.]