Rauvolfia
Rauvolfia (also spelled Rauwolfia) is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. The genus is named to honor Leonhard Rauwolf. The genus can mainly be found in tropical regions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and various oceanic islands.
Chemical constituents
Rauvolfia serpentina, commonly known as or Indian Snakeroot or Sarpagandha, contains a number of chemicals, including ajmaline, aricine, corynanthine, deserpidine lankanescine rauwolscine, rescinnamine, reserpine, reserpiline, isoreserpine, isoreserpiline, serpentinine, and yohimbine.
Medicinal uses
Reserpine is an alkaloid first isolated from R. serpentina and was widely used as an antihypertensive drug. It had drastic psychological side effects and has been replaced as a first-line antihypertensive drug by other compounds that lack such adverse effects, although combination drugs that include it are still available in some countries as second-line antihypertensive drugs.
Other plants of this genus are also used medicinally, both in conventional western medicine and in Ayurveda, Unani, and folk medicine. Alkaloids in the plants reduce blood pressure, depress activity of the central nervous system and act as hypnotics.
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by: MelvinsFreedom on like stems from walk away
You gotta hold your time
You gotta hit him with the right of way
Maybe black too far for any like the one seen
In a way it's sane either way it's gotta mean
Red sister might be chokin'
But I ain't about that kind
Answer me with the rhythm of a body
That was born to lose two times
Hey big bo day
He says deny but you're for tin lie
Head my shoulder
Big boat deloves, big boat denies
They might try to hide
They have to have some more dead sense
You might be rye like a ball in the wind
Poison dandy lifeforms crime
Mix both down cross sticky pedal the line
The flavor might be missin'
But he acts to cross that anyway
You can bet he can diddle with the promise
In the power of another day
Hey big bo day
He says deny but you're for tin lie
Head my shoulder
Big boat deloves, big boat denies
Two of you sold my wallet
One of you stole my tie
Didn't you say that you're watching?
Denied
Venomous stole in me
Three of you standing by
Didn't you say that you've got it?