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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT103 : Alangium salviifolium (L.f.) Wangerin

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledon
Order : Cornales
Family : Cornaceae
Genus : Alangium
Species : Alangium salviifolium(L.f.) Wangerin
Plant Location in Melghat : on the outskirts of Melghat  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : CORNACEAE  

 
Plant Common Name : Sage Leaved Alangium • Hindi: Ankol • Urdu: Ankula • Malayalam: Arinjl • Telugu: Urgu • Kannada: Ankolamara • Sanskrit: Ankolah • Tamil: Alandi
 
Synonym : Grewia salviifolia L.f.
Karangolum salviifolium (L.f.) Kuntze


Description : a tall thorny tree native to India. It grows to a height of about 3 to 10 meters.The bark is ash colored, rough and faintly fissured. The leaves are elliptic oblong, elliptic lanceolate or oblong lanceolate. The flowers are greenish white, fascilcled, axillary or on old wood. The berries are ovoid, ellipsoid or nearly globose.glabrous, smooth and violet to purple. The flowering season is February to June.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : In Ayurveda the roots and the fruits are used for treatment of rheumatism, and hemorrhoid. Externally it is used for the treatment of bites of rabbits, rats, and dogs. The roots are anthelmintic and purgative. The juice is used to expel worms, and to treat conditions such as piles, dropsy, hypertension, Diarrhea, fever, back pain, blood disorders, snake and rat bites, leprosy and other skin diseases. he stem is used to cure Diarrhea and vomiting. The leaves are used to cure asthma and as cataplasm to reduce rheumatic pains. The fruit juice is applied to the eyes to cure eye diseases.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : cephaline
emetine
psychotrine
Alangidiol
Isoalangidiol
Isotubulosine
1-Hexacosanol
Alamarine
Alangicine
Alangimarckine
Alangimarine
alangine
Alangiside
Betulic acid
Cephaeline
Emetamine
Episterol
Loganic acid
Neocephaeline
Protoemetine
Protoemetinol
Psychotrine
Salsoline
Verbenalin

Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :

~ Sonika Jain, Jaya Dwivedi, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Swaha Satpathy and Arjun Patra; "Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review"; Pharmacogn. J. (2016); 8(2): 87-102 PMID :