Medicinal Use

 

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Uses

 

   
  • A decoction of the fruit is used as an astringent tonic in chronic dysentry. An infusion of the wood is used in the control of diabetes.
  • The wood of P. santalinus is considered astringent, tonic and diaphoretic.
  • A paste of the wood is used to give cooling effect, applied externally for inflammations and head-ache.
  • It is useful in bilious affections and skin diseases.
  • The wood is bitter in taste with a flavour, anhelmintic, aphrodisiac, alexiteric useful in vomiting, thirst, eye diseases, cures diseases of the blood vata and kapha, mental aberrations and ulcers.
  • The wood is in treating headache, skin diseases, fever, boils, scorpion sting and to improve sight.
  • The wood and fruit is used in treating diaphoretics, bilious infections and chronic dysentry.
  • Heart wood is known to possess isoflavone glucosidessavinin, calocedrin and triterpene.
  • The lignan isolated from the heartwood is known to inhibit tumor necrosis factor alpha production and T-cell proliferation.
  • The heart wood contains isoflavone glucosides and two anti-tumour lignans, viz., savinin and calocedrin.
  • A triterpene is reported from the callus of stem cuttings.
  • Ethanol extract of stem bark at 0.25 g/kg body weight was reported to possess anti-hyperglycaemic activity.
  • The stem bark extract was shown to contain maximum activity against Enterobacter aerogenes, Alcaligenes faecalis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus vulgaris, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus.
  • The leaf extract showed maximum activity against Escherichia coli, Alcaligenes faecalis, Enterobacter aerogenes and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.  
  • The ethanol extracts of Pterocarpus santalinus L.f. (Fabaceae) at dose of 50-250 mg/kg showed gastroprotective effect in reserpine-induced, pyloric-ligated experimental rats.

Source :

  1. Teresa Mulliken and Petra Crofton, Review of the Status, Harvest, Trade and Management of Seven Asian CITES-listed Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Species

  2. http://www.herbalcureindia.com/herbs/pterocarpus-santalinus.htm

 

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