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Botanical Name:
Holarrhena antidysenterica
Kutaja consists of dried stem bark of Holarrhena
antidysenterica (Roth), Family Apocynaceae
Common Name(s) in English & Indian Languages
Sanskrit: Kalinga, Sakra, Vatsaka
Assamese: Dudhkuri
Bengali: Kurchi
English: Ester tree, Conessi bark
Guajarati: Kuda, Kadachhal, Kudo
Hindi: Kurchi, Kuraiya
Kannada: Kodasige, Halagattigida, Halagatti Mara
Kashmiri: Kogad
Malayalam: Kutakappala
Marathi: Pandhra Kuda
Oriya: Kurei, Keruan
Punjabi: Kurasukk, Kura
Tamil: Kudasapalai
Telugu: Kodisapala, Palakodisa
Urdu: Kurchi
Botanical description:
Small to medium sized tree, erect, glabrous shrub, 30–60 cm
high. Leaves whorled, 7.5–17.5 cm long, lanceolate or
oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, tapering gradually into
the petiole, thin. Flowers white or pinkish; peduncles
5.0–7.5 cm long; pedicels and calyx red. Calyx lobes 2.5 mm
long, lanceolate. Corolla about 1–1.3cm long; tube slender;
inflated slightly above middle; lobes much shorter than
tube, obtuse. Drupes about 6 mm (diameter), single or
didymous and more or less connate, purplish black when ripe.
Parts used:
Bark
Major chemical constituent:
Conessine and related alkaloids
Therapeutic uses:
• Piles (Arsa)
• Diarrhoea (Atisara)
• Diseases of skin (Kustha)
• Dysentery (Pravahika)
• Thirst (Trsna)
• Diarrhoea with fever (Jvaratisara)
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