MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT033 : Ougeinia oojeinensis (Roxb.)Hochr. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 146 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Marida , Jarida Dhargad | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Tiwas K-Ruthu, G-sed, Sandan • Hindi: Sandan, Tinnas • Kannada: bettahonne, huli, karimutale, karimuttala • Malayalam: malavenna, nemi, totukara • Marathi: kalapalas, tanach, tewas • Nepali: Sandan • Oriya: bandano • Sanskrit: Akshaka, Ashmagarbhaka, Atimuktaka, Bhasmagharba • Tamil: vengai, atimuttam, cakkirini • Telugu: Tellamotuku atimuktamu, badanegi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Desmodium oojeinense (Roxb.)H.Ohashi. Ougeinia dalbergioides Benth. |
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| Description : | A small deciduous tree upto 12 m tall with grey or dark brown, deeply cracked bark. Leaves alternate, trifoliate, to 30 cm long(including the petiole); petioles 3.8-5 cm long; stipules 6 mm long, lanceolate, acute; leaflets broadly ovate, 7.5-15 cm long and 3.8-10 cm wide, coriaceous, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent beneath, base cordate, margins shallowly crenate, main nerves 4-8 pairs, petiolules 3 mm long. Flowers white or pink, somewhat fragrant, borne in short-fascicled racemes arising from the nodes of old branches; pedicels 1.2-2 cm long, filiform; bracts c.1.3 mm long, ovate, acuminate; bracteole 1 beneath the calyx, minute; calyx 4-6 mm long, pubescent, teeth short, triangular; corolla 1-1.3 cm long. Fruits(pods) linear-oblong, 5-7.5 cm long, light brown, flat, joints 2-3 times as long as broad, reticulately veined; seeds 2-5. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Juice of the root, mixed with the powder of two fruits of black pepper, is taken in cases of eye trouble. The bark is used against fevers. A paste of bark is applied to cuts and wounds. A sap exudate is used to make a medicine against dysentery. The gum is astringent. The bark used as astringent, acrid, cooling, stimulant, anti-inflammatory, constipating, urinary astringent, anthelmintic, sudorific, depurative, styptic, febrifuge and rejuvenating. The extract of the whole plant showed anti – inflammatory, hypotensive action, anti-oxidant activity, Hepatoprotective, anthelmintic, hypoglycemic and wound healing activities. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | genistein ougenin dalbergioidin kaempferol lupeol Ferreirin neophellamuretin orobol wedelolactone homoferririn isoflavanone betulin dalbergioidin homoferreirin ougeinin |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
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