Oroxylum indicum |
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| Author : (L.) Benth. ex Kurz |
| Family : Bignoniaceae |
Habit: Small tree
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| Sanskrit: Syonakah, Tuntukah |
| English: Indian trumpet tree |
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| Description |
| A small to medium-sized, deciduous tree with greyish-brown bark, possessing prominent leaf scars and lenticels, large, opposite, tripinnate leaves, with many ovate-elliptic leaflets and jointed rachis, large, fleshy, foetid, bell-shaped flowers which are purplish-red outside and creamy-yellow inside, in erect racemes and very large, brown, sword-shaped, woody capsules containing many, flat and thin seeds having whitish wing around. |
| Useful part |
Root, leaves, fruits, seeds |
| Medicinal Uses |
| inflammations, sprains, hiccough, cough, asthma, bronchitis, worm infestations, diarrhoea, dysentery, vomiting, leprosy, leucoderma, wounds, rheumatoid arthritis, fever, stomach pains, headache, uclers, spleen disorders, cardiac disorders, bleeding, purgative |
| Major chemical constituents |
Baicalein, tetulin, 7-0-β-gentiobioside, 5-hydroxy-8-methoxy-7-0-β-D-glucuronyl-flavone, caprylic, lauric, linoleic, myristic, oleic, palmitic, palmitoleic and stearic acids, aloe-emodin, baicalein-7-glucuronide, scutellarein-7-glucuronide, chrysin, oroxylium A, dihydrobaicalein, p-coumaric acid, scutellarein-7-rutinoside, prunetin, β-sitosterol |