| Synonym : | Pentaptera arjuna Roxb. ex DC.
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| Bangla Name : | Arjun |
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| English Name : | Arjuna Myrobalan, Arjun. |
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| Family : | Combretaceae |
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| Disease : | anaemia, excessive perspiration, dysentery, asthma, hypertension, wounds, skin eruptions, menstrual problems, pains and leucorrhoea, |
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| Description : | A large deciduous or semideciduous tree with buttressed and fluted trunk. Leaves sub-opposite, 10-15 cm long, elliptic-oblong, tip blunt or very shortly acute. Flowers very small, sessile, yellowish, in short axillary spikes or in erect terminal panicles. Fruits obovoid or oblong, 2.5-3.5 cm long with 5-7 narrow wings. |
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| Distribution : | Planted all over Bangladesh. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | The bark constitutes an important crude drug, which contains tannins, triterpenoids saponins, esters, flavonoids, sterols, calcium salts, alkaloidal and glycosidal substances, arjunine and arjunglycoside, arjunin, a sapogenin, arjungenin, a flavone, arjun |
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| Uses : | Bark is cardiac tonic, astringent, diuretic and febrifuge, useful in diseases of the heart, anaemia, excessive perspiration, dysentery, asthma, hypertension, wounds, skin eruptions, menstrual problems, pains and leucorrhoea. It is also used in the treatme |
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| Habit : | Tree |
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