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Botanical Name:
Symplocos racemosus
Lodhra consists of dried stem bark of Symplocos racemosa
Roxb, Fam.Symplocaceae.
Common Name(s) in English & Indian Languages
Sanskrit: Rodhra, Paittka Lodhra, Sabara Lodhra, Tirita
Assamese: Mugam
Bengali: Lodha, Lodhra
English: Symplocos bark
Guajarati: Lodhaz
Hindi: Lodha
Kannada: Lodhra
Kashmiri: Kath
Malayalam: Pachotti
Marathi: Lodha, Lodhra
Punjabi: Lodhar
Tamil: Vellilathi, Vellilothram
Telugu: Lodhuga
Urdu: Lodh, Lodhpathani
Botanical description:
An evergreen tree, 6-8.5 m tall, leaves spirally or
distichously arranged, simple; stipules absent; leaf blade
margin entire, dentate, or glandular dentate, midvein
adaxially impressed or rarely flat or prominent.
Inflorescences inspikes, racemes, panicles, or glomerules,
rarely flowers solitary. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual,
rarely unisexual, supported by 1bract and 2 bractlets,
rarely bractless or with several bracts in leaf axil.Ovary
inferior to half inferior, 2-5-locular but unless stated
otherwise in descriptions 3-locular, with 2--4 ovules per
locule. Calyx lobes, persistent, valvate or imbricate.
Corolla white (not repeated in descriptions) or
yellow,gamopetalous but divided nearly to base (or to middle
in S. pendula) ; lobes, imbricate. Stamens many, rarely 4 or
5, adnate to base of corolla tube, monadelphous in subgenus
Symplocos, monadelphous to pentadelphous in subgenus Hopea;
filaments distinct or in fascicles; anthers subglobose,
2-locular. Ovary usually with an apical 5-glandular,
annular, cylindrical, or 5-lobed disc. Style 1, filiform;
stigma small, capitate or 2--5-lobed. Fruit a drupe. Seeds
with copious endosperm; embryo straight or curved;
cotyledons very short.
Parts used:
Stem bark
Major chemical constituent:
Alkaloids (loturine and colloturine) and red coloring matter
Therapeutic uses:
• Inflammation (Sotha)
• Diarrhoea (Atisara)
• Disease of eyes (Netraroga)
• Bleeding disorder (Raktapitta)
• Excessive vaginal discharge (Pradara) |
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