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Botanical Name :
Woodfordia Fruticosa
Sanskrit Name :
Dhai phul
English Name :
Fire
flame bush
Family :Lythaceae
Part Used: Flower
Description of
Woodfordia Fruticosa
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A much-branched, beautiful shrub, with fluted stems and long,
spreading branches, 1-3 m. high, rarely up to 7 m., commonly
occurring throughout North India, ascending to an altitude of c.
1,500 m. in the Himalayas, but rather scarce in South India. It
is sometimes cultivated in gardens for its flowers, which are
borne during the summer months. Bark reddish brown, peeling off
in thin, fibrous strips; leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or
ovate-lanceolate; flowers numerous, brilliant red in dense
axillary paniculate-cymose clusters; capsules ellipsoid,
membranous; seeds brown, minute, smooth obovate.
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Medicinal Uses:
The flowers are acrid, astringent, styptic, depurative, utreine
sadative, constipating, antibacterial, corrective of urinary
pigments, febrifuge and alexeteric. They are useful in the
conditions of kapha and pitta, leprosy, burning sensation,
skindiseases, diarrhoea, dysentery, fever, headache,
hemorrhoids, herpes, internal hemorrhage, leukorrhea, liver
disorders, menorrhagia, ulcers, wounds. Juice of leaves are used
in bilious sickness. They are also valued as a stimulant in
pregnancy.
Principal
Constituents:
Woodfordins A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and were identified from
the flowers.
Specification:
Standardized to customer Specification
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