Botanical Name: Oroxylom indicum (L.) Kurz.
Synonyms: Bignonia indica L., Calosanthes indica (L.) Blume.
Bignonia pentandra Laur.
Family : Bignoniaceae
Local Name: English : Midnight horror tree Hindi : Sagru Oriya : Phanaphana Tamil : Konda Bengali : Sona
Habitat: It is found occasional in mixed deciduous forests, especially in hills.
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Bhutan, China.
Flowering time: July-August Fruiting time: December-March
Conservation Status: Endangered
Description:
Habit :- Oroxylum indicum is a small branched tree with 5-10 m high, laxly branched or unbranched.
Leaf :- Leaves opposite, 2-4 pinnately compound. Leaflets triangular-ovate, glabrous, becoming after drying, base sub rounded, oblique, margin entire.
Flower :- Inflorescence racemose, terminal, calyx large, purple, broadly campanulate, fleshy. Corolla purple-red, campanulate, limb slightly bilabiate, tomentose basally, stamen 5, sub equal, style filiform, stigma ligulate, compressed.
Fruit :- Capsule woody, valves with midrib, margin convex. Seed rounded, winged including papery.
Uses: The bark, leaves, root, root bark, fruits, leaves and seeds are used to treat snake bite.
Bark :- The decoction of the bark is taken for curing gastric ulcer and a paste made of the bark applied to cure mouth cancer, scabies and other skin diseases. Juice of the bark is used as a tonic and astringent useful in diarrhea, diaphoretic, rheumatism and dysentery.
Root :- It is used to cure inflammations, leprosy, dropsy, sprains, neuralgia, hiccough, cough, asthma, bronchitis, anorexia, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery. Root Bark :- It is used as astringent, bitter tonic, stomachic, anodyne and sudorific and also useful in diarrhea, dysentery and ottorrhoea.
Leaf :- Paste of leaves are used externally to treat an enlarged spleen, headache and ulcer, also used as emollient & anodyne.
Fruit :- Tender fruits are prescribed for expectorant, carminative and stomachic and also useful in cough, bronchitis, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic and leucoderma. The mature fruits are to cure acrid, sweet, anthelmintic and stomachic and also useful in sore throat, cardiac disorders, worm infestations, gastric disorders, bronchitis.
Seed :- The seed are used as purgative.
Source
Mao, A.A.; Oroxylum indicum Vent.-A potential anticancer Medicinal plant.
Saxena, H.O. & Brahmam, M. (1994). The Flora of Orissa, Vol.II, pp: 1300-1301.
Sharma P.C.; Yelne M.B.; Dennis T.J.(2005 ).Database on Medicinal Plants used in Ayurveda, Vol.II pp: 490-499.
Sharma R. (2003). Medicinal plants of IndiaAn encyclopedia, pp 179-180.
Swain B.K & Das S.K. (2007) Visual guide to wild medicinal plants of Orissa, pp 353.
www.en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ oroxylum_indicum
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Family : Bignoniaceae
Local Name: English : Midnight horror tree Hindi : Sagru Oriya : Phanaphana Tamil : Konda Bengali : Sona
Habitat: It is found occasional in mixed deciduous forests, especially in hills.
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Bhutan, China.
Flowering time: July-August Fruiting time: December-March
Conservation Status: Endangered
Description:
Habit :- Oroxylum indicum is a small branched tree with 5-10 m high, laxly branched or unbranched.
Leaf :- Leaves opposite, 2-4 pinnately compound. Leaflets triangular-ovate, glabrous, becoming after drying, base sub rounded, oblique, margin entire.
Flower :- Inflorescence racemose, terminal, calyx large, purple, broadly campanulate, fleshy. Corolla purple-red, campanulate, limb slightly bilabiate, tomentose basally, stamen 5, sub equal, style filiform, stigma ligulate, compressed.
Fruit :- Capsule woody, valves with midrib, margin convex. Seed rounded, winged including papery.
Uses: The bark, leaves, root, root bark, fruits, leaves and seeds are used to treat snake bite.
Bark :- The decoction of the bark is taken for curing gastric ulcer and a paste made of the bark applied to cure mouth cancer, scabies and other skin diseases. Juice of the bark is used as a tonic and astringent useful in diarrhea, diaphoretic, rheumatism and dysentery.
Root :- It is used to cure inflammations, leprosy, dropsy, sprains, neuralgia, hiccough, cough, asthma, bronchitis, anorexia, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery. Root Bark :- It is used as astringent, bitter tonic, stomachic, anodyne and sudorific and also useful in diarrhea, dysentery and ottorrhoea.
Leaf :- Paste of leaves are used externally to treat an enlarged spleen, headache and ulcer, also used as emollient & anodyne.
Fruit :- Tender fruits are prescribed for expectorant, carminative and stomachic and also useful in cough, bronchitis, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic and leucoderma. The mature fruits are to cure acrid, sweet, anthelmintic and stomachic and also useful in sore throat, cardiac disorders, worm infestations, gastric disorders, bronchitis.
Seed :- The seed are used as purgative.
Source
Mao, A.A.; Oroxylum indicum Vent.-A potential anticancer Medicinal plant.
Saxena, H.O. & Brahmam, M. (1994). The Flora of Orissa, Vol.II, pp: 1300-1301.
Sharma P.C.; Yelne M.B.; Dennis T.J.(2005 ).Database on Medicinal Plants used in Ayurveda, Vol.II pp: 490-499.
Sharma R. (2003). Medicinal plants of IndiaAn encyclopedia, pp 179-180.
Swain B.K & Das S.K. (2007) Visual guide to wild medicinal plants of Orissa, pp 353.
www.en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ oroxylum_indicum
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