Habitat: The sub-Himalayan tract, up to 1,200 m from Indus to Assam and in plains throughout India.
English: Sissoo, South Indian Redwood, Sissoo.Ayurvedic: Shimshapaa, Krishna- shimshapaa, Picchilaa.Unani: Seesham.Siddha/Tamil: Irupoolai.Action: Leaves—bitter, and stimulant. Leaf mucilage, mixed with sweet oil, is applied to excoriations. Wood—anthelmintic, alterative, emetic, stomachic, antileprotic; used in diseases due to vitiated blood. Bark—anticholerin. Root—astringent.
Along with other therapeutic applications, The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India indicated the use of the heart- wood in turbity of the urine, calculus and lipuria.The leaves gave isoflavone sissotrin; flowers 7,4'-di-Me-tectorigenin. Seed oil (4.1%) contained fatty acids composed of palmitic (16.2), stearic (7.0%), oleic (14.6), linolenic (9.80) and linole- ic (52.5) acids and lipids comprising neutral lipids (88.5), glycolipids (7.2) and phospholipids (4.0%). Pods contain 2% tannins.Dosage: Heartwood—1.5-10 g powder; 10-20 g for decoction. (API Vol. III.)... dalbergia sissooTypically the patient complains of widespread severe itching, worse when the body is warm after a bath or in bed. Burrows are visible as wavy black lines 3–5 mm long in the skin of the hands, wrists or sides of the feet. The intensity of the rash depends on the immune response. Papules, pustules, crusts and excoriations are seen on the hands and there may be a widespread eczematous (see DERMATITIS) or urticarial (see URTICARIA) rash elsewhere. Papules or even nodules on the PENIS and SCROTUM are characteristic. In infants, burrows occur on the palms and soles. Diminished immune response in old age, DOWN’S (DOWN) SYNDROME, etc. lead to a type of scabies which is less itching and more scaly. Rarely, absence of immune response causes a mite-saturated, generalised scaly dermatitis (Norwegian scabies). Admission of such a patient to hospital may result in an outbreak of scabies in other patients, sta? and visitors caused by mite-infested airborne scale.
Treatment MALATHION 0·5 per cent aqueous lotion, or PERMETHRIN 5 per cent cream, applied to the whole body, except the head, for 24 hours and then washed o? cures the infection. In infants the head and neck should be included. The secondary eruption may take 2– 3 weeks to settle completely and 10 per cent crotamiton cream is used during this period. It is essential that all intimate contacts be treated simultaneously. FOMITES need not be treated.... scabies