Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | Totilamul |
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| Formal name | Syonaka | |
Other names Tips！ | Shyonaaka mool chaal, Sonaapaathaa mool chaal (T), Sona, Nasona, Sonpatti, Sonagach jar chaal (B), Ullu, Arulu, Saona, Sonaathaaa mool chaal (H), Tigdu, Bunepale, Sonepatta, Tigadu beru patte (K), Palagapaiyani, Pelam mulam toli (M), Achi, Peiarlanthei, Vangamaram vera pattai (Ta), Dundilum, Pampini, Dundillum veru chekku (Te), Sonaka (Ti), Totola (N), Thotila (Sin) | |
| English name | Indian Trumpet Tree | |
| Original plant name | Oroxylum indicum Vent., Indian Trumpet Tree | |
| Family name | Bignoniaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | root |
| Collection information | Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Colombo , W. Wilbert & Co. | |
| Collection date | 1982/02/01 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba, et al. | |
| TMPW No. | 11721 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Ayurvedic name or Sanskrit name, English name | Syonaka (Roots), Indian Trumpet Tree | ||
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| Original plant name | Oroxylum indicum Vent. | |||
| Family name | Bignoniaceae | |||
| Used part | Roots, Bark, Seed | |||
| Distribution area | A small to medium sized deciduous tree, upto 12m in height, found throughout the greater part of India upto an altitude of 1200m. | |||
| Remarks | Common. | |||
| Common uses | Roots are sweet, astringent, bitter, acrid, refrigerant, antiinflammatory, anodyne, aphrodisiac, expectorant, appetizing, carminative, digestive, anthelmintic, constipating, diaphoretic, diuretic, antiarthritic, febrifuge and tonic. They are useful in the treatment of inflammations, dropsy, sprains, neuralgia, hiccough, cough, asthma, bronchitis, anorexia, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic, helminthiasis, diarrhoea/diarrhea, dysentery, strangury, gout, vomiting, leucoderma, wounds, rheumatoid arthritis and fever. Leaves are stomachic and anodyne and are useful in stomachalgia, flatulence, cephalalgia, ulcers and splenomegaly. | |||
| Chemical constituent | - The stem and root barks contain three flavone colouring matters, viz. oroxylin-A (stem bark, 0.35%; root bark, 0.86%), baicalein (stem bark, 0.5%) and chrysin (stem bark, 0.35%). Oroxylin-A is the 6-methyl ether of baicalein and has been synthesized. - The bark contains also traces of an alkaloid, tannic acid, sitosterol and galactose; p-coumaric acid 1.84%. Presence of ellagic acid is reported from the root-bark and root-wood. - The seeds on extraction with petroleum ether yield c. 20% of a non-drying, bright yellow oil with the following constants: sp. gr. 25°, 0.9062; n25°, 1.4646; acid val., 0.71; sap. val., 183.9; iod. val. (Hanus), 71.5; Hehner val., 93.26; R.M. val., 0.92; Polenske val., 1.40; acet. val., 6.30; and unsapon. matter, 1.36%. The mixed fatty acids contain 80.4% oleic and 19.6% saturated acids (palmitic, stearic and probably lignoceric and higher acids). The seeds contain a yellow crystalline principle (m.p. 274°), and baicalein and its glucoside named tetuin (baicalein-6-glucoside, C21H20O10.2H2O, m.p. 112-14°. | |||
| Medical system | Ayurveda (Traditional Indian medicine) | |||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | [2] Indian Medicinal Plants - A Compendium of 500 species, Varier, P.S., Orient Longman Ltd. Chennai (Madras) Vol. 4 (Repr.1997), pp 186-190 Illustrated Manual of Herbal Drugs Used in Ayurveda, 1996. Sarin, Y.K., Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi pp 102-103 | ||
| Remarks | Young shoots and unripe fruits are eaten as vegetables; flowers and bark are also reported to be eaten. The tree is lopped for fodder. Thin light seeds are said to be used as stuffing material for hats and umbrellas. Bark and fruits may be used as mordant in dyeing and tanning. The wood has been reported to be used for match boxes in Philippines. The material is sometimes adulterated with the stem bark, which is tough and leathery, yellowish grey in colour with brown patches and is covered with transversely elongated or circular lenticels. Root and root bark of Ailanthes excelsa Roxb. (Family - Simarubaceae) known as Arluka or Arlu in Sanskrit, is commonly used as substitute in parts of Rajasthan and Gujrat. | |||
| Last renewal date | 2024/01/15 | |||
