| PlantID | 0118 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Botanical Name | Spermadictyon suaveolens | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name | Ban champa | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Part used | Roots | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Properties | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Use | Useful in courbature (as infusion) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chemistry | Alcoholic extract of root caused 45% reduction in blood sugar in normal rats and 37% reduction in alloxanised rats respectively at the end of 5th hr. Similar reduction was observed in normal rabbits, dogs and monkeys. Ethyl acetate-soluble fraction of alcoholic extract at 1/10th of above dose showed hypoglycaemic activity of similar magnitude in normal rats but was inactive in alloxanised rats. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cultivation | Cultivated as an ornamental shrub in gardens. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regional Habitat | Distribution: Jodhpur, Bundi and Kota districts. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Small trees, grows upto 3-4 m in height. Bark: greyish or pale-brown, faintly longitudinally fissured. Leaves: stipules triangular, hairy; petioles 0.1-0.6 cm long; lamina truncate or often slightly unequal-sided at base, ovate, elliptic-lanceolate; surfaces pubescent, dense on veins, lateral veins 10-16 pairs, arcuate, conspicuous, apex acute, shortly acuminate, margins entire. Flowers: sessile, borne in leafy panicles; bracts leafy, deminishing in size towards the apex; bracteoles minute, subulate; calyx 0.3 cm long, tube narrow, hairy, teeth 4-5, linear, acute, densely pubescent; corolla white or pale-blue fragrant, tube slender, sparsely pubescent, lobes ovate, glabrous inside. Fruits: capsules like, 0.3-0.4 cm long, 1-celled ellipsoid. Seeds: glabrous, outer coat of testa reticulate. Flowers and Fruits appeared during December-February. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Spermadictyon suaveolens