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Botanical Name |
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Ixora coccinea L. |
English
Name |
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Jungle Flame Ixora, flame flower, Flame of the Woods, or Jungle Geranium |
Synonym(s) |
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Ixora bandhuca Roxb., Ixora grandiflora Bot. |
Family |
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Rubiaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A glabrous , 0.6 to 1.0 m tall. Leaves opposite, sessile, elliptic ovate or obovate, 5 to 10 cm long, apex obtuse, base rounded, stipules with a long, rigid, cuspidate point. Flowers numerous bright scarlet or sometimes pink or yellow, borne in dense terminal corymbose cymes; calyx 2.5 mm long, triangular, acute; corolla tube upto 3.8 cm long, lobes elliptic-oblong, subacute. Fruit berry globose, 0.6 cm in diameter reddish or purplish when ripe. Seeds ventrally concave. |
| Herb Effects |
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Astringent, hypothermic, coagulates semen and depresses the central nervous system (aerial part), antiseptic, sedative, stomachic. |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Leucocyanidin (flower) and octadecadieonic acid (root bark). |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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IUPAC Name |
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Structure |
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| Leucocyanidin |
480-17-1 |
2-(3,4-dihydroxyphen
yl)chroman-3,4,5,7-t
etrol |
C15H14O7 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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In dysentery, diarrhea and leucorrhea (flower); scabies (aerial part); for sores and ulcers (decoction of flower and bark); used in hiccup, fever, gonorrhoea, loss of appetite and abdominal pain(roots). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
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