Rauvolfia SERPENTINA (L.) Benth. ex Kurz.
| Synonym : | Ophioxylon serpentinum L. Ophioxylon trifoliatum Gaertn. Rauvolfia obversa (Miq.) Baill. Rauvolfia trifoliata (Gaertn.) Baill. |
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| Bangla Name : | Sarpagandha, Chhoto Chadar, Chhoto Chand, Chandra. ,Bhomara (Chakma), Bowmba Raja (Tanchangya), Badap, Durakmi (Garo). |
| English Name : | Snake-root. |
| Family : | Apocynaceae |
| Disease : | Sedative, tonic , febrifuge, high blood pressure, insomnia, madness, , hypochondria , , anxiety, excitement, schizophrenia, insanity, , epilepsy, diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, colic , fever. ,fever and piles. |
| Description : | A small erect shrub, up to 0.9 m high. Leaves in whorls of 3, 7.5-18 cm long, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous. Flowers white, in many-flowered irregular corymbose cymes, pedicels and calyx, bright red. Corolla 1-1.3 cm long, tube slender, swollen a little above the middle. Drupes single or didymous, about 6 mm diam., purplish black when ripe. |
| Distribution : | In most of the places of Bangladesh as under growth. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Roots contain some 50 indole alkaloids including the therapeutically important reserpine, deserpidine, rescinnamine and yohimbine. Some of the other alkaloids are ajmaline, ajmalinine, ajmalicine(?-yohimbine), serpentine, serpentinine, isoajmaline and neo |
| Uses : | Roots are sedative, tonic and febrifuge. It is a valuable remedy in high blood pressure, used for the treatment of insomnia, madness, painful affections of the bowels, hypochondria and irritative conditions of the central nervous system. Roots have been |
| Habit : | Shrub |