Indian Laburnum
Scientific name of Indian Laburnum: Cassia fistula
Name of Indian Laburnum in different languages:
English: Golden shower tree
Sanskrit: Aragvadha, Chaturangula, Kritamala, Suvarnaka
Hindi: Amaltaas (अमलतास), Bendra lathi
Malayalam: Kanikkonna (കണിക്കൊന്ന), Ophirpponnu (ഓഫീർപ്പൊന്ന്), Karnikaram (കർണ്ണികാരം), അരഗ്വധം, സുവർണ്ണകം
Plant description:
Indian Laburnum is one of the most beautiful among tropical trees growing up to 40 feet tall, the bark is grey in color, leaves are green alternately arranged, flowers occur in March - April, it sheds all its leaves and bursts into a mass of long bunches like yellow gold, clusters of flowers. The wood is hard and heavy and reddish; the fruits are pudding pipe shaped, shiny dark brown in color, 2 feet long, which contains, brown seeds, up to 100 seeds in one pod.
Leaf Arrangement
| Shape-Lanceoate | Margin-Entire | Venation-Reticulate |
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Useful plant parts:
Flower, bark, root.
Medicinal uses:
To treat Vata, Pita, Kapha disorders, blood purification, constipation, piles, common cold, fever, flatulence, skin problems etc.
Chemical content:
Anthraquinone, tannin, volatile oil and phlobaphanes
How to prepare medicines:
bathing in bark decoction can be reduce skin diseases.
Ayurveda properties
| Rasa (Taste) | Madhur (Sweet) |
| Guna (Physical Property ) | Mridu, Guru, Singdha (Soft, Heavy, Unctuous Oily) |
| Virya (Potency) | Sheetha(Cold) |
| Vipaka (Metabolic Property) | Madhur (Sweet) |
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