Mesua ferrea
Author : L.
Family : Clusiaceae

Habit:Large tree
Sanskrit: Nagapushpah, Nagakesarah
English: Mesua, Iron-wood tree
 
Description
A large evergreen tree, often buttressed at the base, with greyish or reddish brown bark, exfoliating in large thin flakes, lanceolate leaves, usually covered with white waxy bloom underneath, red when young, large, white, fragrant flowers, usually solitary or in clusters of 2-3, ovoid, woody fruits with persistent calyx and 1-4, dark brown seeds.
Useful part

Flowers, seeds, stem bark, leaves
Medicinal Uses

asthma, cough, hiccough, leprosy, scabies, skin diseases, vomiting, dysentery, bleeding, ulcers, burning sensation of the feet, impotency, leucorrhoea, headache, fever, cardiac debility, rheumatism, anaemia, chronic gingivitis, tonic after child birth, snake bite, scorpion sting
Major chemical constituents

Mammeisin, mesuaferrone-A, mesuaferrone-B, mesuanic acid, α- & β-amyrin, β-sitosterol, mesuol, mammeigin, mesuagin, mesuaferrol, leucoanthocyanidin, mesuone, mesuaxanthone-A & -B, euxanthone, ferruol-A & -B, guttiferol, ferrxanthone derivative, essential oil