Terminalia Arjuna
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Combretaceae
Genus: Terminalia
Species: T. arjuna
Terminalia Arjuna is a valuable herb used in the treatment of angina, coronary artery disease, heart failure, edema, and possibly hypercholesterolemia. It has successfully proven its worth in heart related illness.
- It provides a significant cardiac protection in myocardial infarction commonly known as heart attack.
- It helps in lowering cholesterol levels and maintaining it to normal levels.
- Arjuna herb nourishes heart muscles, which is very helpful in regular expansion and contraction of heart.
- It helps in both vasoconstriction as well as vasodilatation that make the vessels flexible there by making it very much helpful for proper functioning of circulatory system.
- It works as wonderful wound healer.
- It has excellent curing power and can be apply locally on burned area.
- It has been used in wounds and injuries to prevent blood loss as it helps in clot formations.
- It has been found very useful in tubercular cough by stopping blood in cough and healing the ruptured arteries in lungs.
- Terminalia arjuna helps in suppressing painful micturation and maintains normal urine flow.
- It works as a wonderful antioxidant therefore helps in stopping early aging signs and helps in maintaining youth.
Terminalia arjuna or better known as Arjuna, is a well-known medicinal plant whose bark is widely used in Ayurvedic medicine, prominently as a cardiac tonic. Arjuna is beneficial for maintaining a healthy and normal cardiac function. It helps in reducing the workload on the heart, improves the pumping activity and strengthens the cardiac muscle. It has following benefits. Maintains normal cardiac function. Relieves mental stress and nervousness. Helps in reducing blood pressure. Plays an important role in decreasing the LDL (bad) cholesterol levels. Lowers beta-lipoprotein lipids and recovers the HDL balance. Prevention and treatment of many heart problems like angina, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, high cholesterol and blood pressure.
