Vateria indica
Vateria indica
Author : L.
Family : Dipterocarpaceae

Habit:Large tree
Sanskrit: Ajakarnah, Sarjah
English: Indian copal tree, Piney varnish-tree, White dammar, White Dhup
 
Description
Large evergreen trees, up to 30 m tall, with white-grey to smooth bark, peeling off in thick, round flakes, ovate or oblong or elliptic-oblong leaves, bright red when young, white, fragrant flowers in terminal or lateral corymbose panicles and pale brown, fleshy, ovoid-ellipsoid or oblong 3-valved capsules containing reddish-white or cream-coloured single seed.
Useful part

Bark, gum-resin, oil
Medicinal Uses

cough, asthma, bronchitis, leprosy, skin eruptions, wounds, ulcers, ringworm, diarrhoea, dysentery, anaemia, tubercular glands, bleedings, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, chronic rheumatism
Major chemical constituents

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