Organic Arjuna: What it is and How to Use It

Organic Arjuna is a dietary herbal supplement that comes from the bark of the terminalia arjuna tree. Distantly related to both the common myrtle as well as the pomegranate, its leaves are a primary food source for a certain species of moth which produces the wild Indian silk known as tussah.

The organic arjuna bark, which is smooth and has grey coloration, is used in Ayurvedic traditional medicine. Tropical weather suits this hardwood tree, which is found throughout India. Commonly, organic arjuna herb is called Koha and White marudah. You will find organic arjuna available in powdered form, as well as kosher varieties, from quality online dried herb and spice sellers.

In Ayurvedic medical traditions, organic arjuna herb is used to treat coronary artery disease. Organic arjuna bark may help with angina and hypertension. It was in fact the subject of a medical research study at the Banaras Hindu University Institute of Medical Studies in Varanasi (Benares). Led by one Dr. K.N. Udupa, the research team administered organic arjuna herb to patients suffering from heart conditions ranging from chest pain (angina pectoris) to full-blown heart failure. Most of the patients responded quite well to treatment with organic arjuna extract.

Organic Arjuna herb is thought to be beneficial to the heart because it contains glycosides and flavonoids, the latter of which may have anti-inflammatory properties. In addition, Organic arjuna herb may also help with gonorrhoea and other sexually transmitted diseases as well as preventing stomach ulcers.

Traditionally, pain due to injuries sustained in a fall may was treated with organic arjuna herb by practitioners of the Ayurvedic tradition. In fact, the use of organic arjuna for the treatment of cardiovascular disease goes back several centuries. Other traditional uses of organic arjuna herb have included that of a diuretic and possibly a vaso-dilator.

The name of organic arjuna has an interesting origin. "Arjuna" is actually the name of one of the heroes that figures prominently in the Hindu epic known as Mahābhārata; the word itself is Sanskrit, and means "white peacock." Traditionally, he was considered to be the mortal incarnation of Narayana and the twin brother of Vishnu the Preserver as well as a close friend of Krishna. The stories of Arjuna may in fact have some factual basis in the history of dynastic wars that occurred in India over 1,000 years before the Common Era. The saga from which Arjuna's story comes does bear some interesting parallels to the War between the Aesir and the Vanir in the Scandinavian epic Volsungasaga as well as the Roman myth of the Rape of the Sabine Women.