Santalum album
Santalum album
Author : L.
Family : Santalaceae

Habit: Small tree
Sanskrit: Chandanah, Shrikhandam
English: Sandal tree, White-sandal tree
 
Description
A small to medium-sized, semi-parasitic tree, up to 15 m tall, with reddish or dark grey or nearly black bark, elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate leaves, small, brownish-purple or straw-coloured flowers, in terminal and axillary paniculate cymes and globose, reddish-brown to dark purple, beaked fruits with globose or ovoid seeds.
Useful part

Heartwood, bark, seeds
Medicinal Uses
burning sensation, headache, foul odour, skin diseases, leprosy, forgetfulness, cardiac debility, hyperacidity, excessive thirst, vomiting, jaundice, cough, bronchitis, hiccough, inflammations, dysentery, diarrhoea, gastric irritability, skin diseases, leprosy, wrinkles, leucorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, intermittent fever, general debility, cancer; menstrual disorders, urinary discharge, eye diseases
Major chemical constituents

α-& β-santalol, santene, α-& β--santalenes, santenol, teresantalol, nor-tricycloekasantalal, exo-norbicycloekasantalal, isovaleraldehyde, 1-santenone, santanone, teresantalic acid, α-& β--santalic acids, dihydro-β-santalic acids, trans-β-santalol, epi-cis-β-santalol, epi-β-santalene, epi-β-santalol, cis-lanceol, cis-nuciferol, β- & epi-β-teresantalic acid, β- & epi-β-norekasantalic acid, β- & epi-β-ekasantalic acid, santalbic acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid, betulic acid, linoleic acid, glucose, fructose, sucrose, n-octacosanol, n-triacontalnol, palmitone, 10-hydroxypalmitone, betulinic acid, L-allohydroxyproline, urs-12-en-3β-yl palmitate, β-sitosterol