Ixora COCCINEA L.
| Synonym : | Ixora bandhuca Roxb. Ixora montana Lour. Pavetta coccinea (L.) Blume. Pavetta rubra Noronha. |
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| Bangla Name : | Rangan, Ranjan. ,Kaya Machaoi (Marma). |
| English Name : | Jungle-flame lxora, Flame of the Woods, Jungle Geranium. |
| Family : | Rubiaceae |
| Disease : | ,stomachic,hiccup, fever, gonorrhoea, diarrhoea and dysentery,leucorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, haemoptysis and catarrhal bronchitis. |
| Description : | A much branched shrub, 0.6-0.9 cm high. Leaves coriaceous, up to 10 cm long, sessile or subsessile, oblong, obtuse. Flowers numerous, bright scarlet, in sessile, corymbiform, dense-flowered cymes. Fruit globose, fleshy, size of a pea. |
| Distribution : | Cultivated in gardens throughout Bangladesh. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves have been reported to contain phastoquinones A, B and C and tocopherylquinone. Roots contain acrid aromatic oil, azelic, oxalic and hepfoic acids, tannins and fatty acids. Root bark contains mannitol, 9, 11-octa-decadeinoic and myristic acids. The |
| Uses : | Roots are sedative and stomachic, used in hiccup, fever, gonorrhoea, diarrhoea and dysentery. The flowers are used in the treatment of dysentery, leucorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, haemoptysis and catarrhal bronchitis. The leaves are used in diarrhoea. EtOH(5 |
| Habit : | Shrub |