Symplocos RACEMOSA Roxb.
| Synonym : | Symplocos intermedia Brand Symplocos macrostachya Brand Symplocos propinqua Hance |
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| Bangla Name : | Lodh |
| English Name : | Californian Cinchona, China Nora, Lodh Tree. |
| Family : | Symplocaceae |
| Disease : | Bowels,dysentery,bowel complaints, inflammations, vaginal discharges, leprosy, abortion and miscarriages |
| Description : | A small evergreen tree with broad crown, up to 6 m high. Leaves 9-18 cm long, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute obtusely-acuminate or obtuse, serrulate, obscurely crenate or rarely entire. Flowers 1-1.3 cm diam., white or fading yellow, in simple axillary pubescent racemes, 1.3-9 cm long. Drupe 1-1.3 cm long, oblong, purplish black. |
| Distribution : | Forest of Sylhet. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Two new monomethyl pelargonidin glucosides (I and II) and pelargonidin-3-O-glucoside have been isolated from trunk bark (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1993). Bark contains two alkaloids, loturine and colloturine (Chopra et al., 1992). 5-?-sitosterol and its glycosi |
| Uses : | The bark is cooling, astringent to the bowels, alexiteric, aphrodisiac and emmenagogue. Cures watery eyes and ophthalmia, good for all diseases of the eyes. Useful in dysentery, bowel complaints, inflammations, vaginal discharges, leprosy, abortion and mi |
| Habit : | Tree |