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Botanical Name :
Saraca Indica
Sanskrit Name :
Ashoka
English Name :
Ashoka
Family : Fabaceae
Part used:
Bark, Seeds and Flowers
Description of
Saraca Indica :
It occurs almost throughout India up to an altitude of 750 m, in
the central and the eastern Himalayas and in the Khasi, Garo and
Lushai hills A small evergreen tree. The leaves are paripinnate
and the leaflets 6-12, oblong and rigidly sub-coriaceous. The
flowers are orange or orange-yellow, eventually turning
vermillion, very fragrant, in dense axillary corymbs; the pods,
flat, leathery, the seeds, 4-8, ellipsoid-oblong and compressed. |
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Uses:
The bark, which is the drug, is reported to have a stimulating
effect on the endometrium and ovarian tissue and is useful in
menorrhagia due to uterine fibroids, in leucorrhea and in
internal bleeding. It is useful in all cases of uterine
bleeding where ergot is indicated.
PHYTOCHEMISTRY:
The bark contains tannin, catechol, sterol, and organic
calciumcompounds.
PHARMACOLOGY:
Oxytocic activity of the plant was seen in rat and human
isolateduterine preparations. Estrogen-primed or gravid uterus
was more sensitive to the action of the alcoholic extract.
Specification:
Standardized to customer Specification
Herbal Extract packing:
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