Alstonia venenata
Alstonia venenata
Author : R.Br..
Family : Apocynaceae
Habit: Shrub
Sanskrit: Vishagni, Anadana
English: -
Description
A glabrous shrub or small tree, 2-6 m tall, with thin, light brown bark, 3-6 narrowly oblong-lanceolate leaves in a whorl, white flowers, in racemose cymes and stipitate, long-beaked, sword-shaped, smooth follicles, usually in pairs containing many, flattened seeds with a tuft of hairs at the end.
Useful part

Roots, fruits
Medicinal Uses

skin diseases, leprosy, cobra and other venomous bites, epilepsy, fatigue, fever, syphilis, insanity, helminthiasis, epilepsy, as remedy for impure blood
Major chemical constituents

alstovenine, venenatine, venoxidine, 3-dehydroalstovenine chloride, anhydroalstonatine, reserpine, veneserpine, kopsinine, venalstonine, venalstonidine, echitovenine, stigmasterol, tri-O-methylgallamide, 16-epivenenatine, 16-epialstovenine, 5-methoxy-1-oxo-tetrahydro-B-carboline, 5,22-dioxokopsane, echitovenidine, (+)-minovincinine, echitoserpidine, echitoserpine, echitoveniline, 11-methoxyechitoveniline, 11-methoxyechitovenidine, 11-methoxy(-)-minovincinine, echitoserpiline, (-) vincadifformine, venoterpine, 11-methoxy(-)-vincadifformine, β-amyrin, ursolic acid, echitovenaldine, 11-methoxyechitovenidine, alstolenine, 19,20-dihydropolyneuridine, deacetylakuammiline, polyneuridine, raucaffrinoline