It is a large, evergreen tree, with a spreading crown and drooping branches. The stems are buttressed and often fluted; the bark is very thick, grey or pinkish green, smooth, exfoliating in large, thin, irregular sheets; the leaves are sub-opposite, oblong or elliptic, coriaceous, cordate; the flowers, in panicled spikes; the fruits are nearly glabrous, ovoid or ovoid-oblong, with 5 to 7 hard, winged angles.

Alterative, astringent, cardiac stimulant, hemostatic, lithontriptic, rejuvinative, tonic.

Herbal Monograph
Herb Information

Arjunic and ellagic acids; arjungenin (bark); arjunone, cerasidin, friedelin and beta-sitosterol (fruit); arjunolone and baicalein (stem bark).

As a tonic (fruit); treating people with high levels of blood triglycerides and cholesterol, to treat heart diseases, consumption, spermaturia, skin diseases, fracture, intrinsic haemorrhage, wounds, piles, diarrhoea and as a liver tonic (bark).

Do not take during pregnancy.

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.