Botanical Name : Bauhinia variegata
Sanskrit name : Kanchanara, Kovidara
English Name :  Buddhist Bauhinia, Orchid Tree, Mountain Ebony               
Family: Caesalpiniaceae                  

Description of Bauhinia variegate:

It grows throughout India, ascending to an altitude of 1,300 m in the Himalayas.

Bauhinia variegata is a medium-sized, deciduous tree. The bark is gray; the leaves are sub- coriaceous and deeply cordate; the flowers are variously coloured and occur in few- flowered, lateral corymbs; the pods are long, hard, flat, glabrous, dehiscent and 10-15 seeded.

Constituents:
The seeds yield a fatty oil, the bark yields fibre. Five flavonoids isolated from the different organs of B.variegata were identified as quercetin, rutin, quercetrin, apigenin and apigenin 7-O-glucoside.

Pharmacology

The alcoholic extract of the stem bark showed CNS activity. Besides producing hypothermia in mice, it also responded to amphetamine hyperactivity test.

Medicinal Uses:
The bark is astringent, tonic and anthelmintic. It is useful in scrofula and skin diseases. It is also used for ulcers and leprosy. A decoction of the bark is taken for dysentery. The dried buds are used for diarrhea, dysentery and hemorrhoids.

Herbal Extract packing:

•  25 Kg. HDPE Drum.