| Description:
A medium sized handsome evergreen tree upto 9 m in height with numerous
spreading and drooping glabrous branches; leaves pinnate, 30-60 cm long
having 2-3 pairs of lancelalate leaflets; flowers orange or
orange-yellow in dense corymbs, very fragrant; fruits flat black pods,
leathery, compressed; seeds 4-8 per pod, ellespsoid, oblong and
compressed. The bark is dark brown to grey or black with a warty
surface, fresh cut ends are pale yellowish red. |
| Uses:
The bark is bitter, astringent, sweet, refrigerant, anthelmintic,
styptic, stomachic, .ube constipating, febrifuge and demulcent. It is
useful in dyspepsia, fever, dipsia, burning g to sensation,
visceromegaly, colic, ulcers, menorrhagia, metropathy, leucorrhoea and
pimples. iges The leaves are depurative and their juice mixed with cumin
seeds is used for treating
stomachalgia. The flowers are considered to be a uterine tonic and are
used in vitiated conditions of pitta, syphilis, cervical adenitis,
hyperdipsia, burning sensation, naemorrhoids, dysentery, scabiesin
children and inflammation. The dried flowers are used in diabetes and
haemorrhagic dysentery and seeds are used for treating bone fractures,
strangury and vesical calculi. |
