Oroxylum indicum
(Common name:- Indian trumphet)
Classification
- Kingdom- Plantae
- (Unranked)- Angiosperms
- (Unranked)- Eudicots
- (Unranked)- Asterids
- Order- Lamiales
- Family- Bignoiaceae
- Genus- Oroxylum
- Species- O. indicum
Oroxylum indicum is commonly known as Indian trumphet and widely used in Chinese medicine.
History
Oroxylum indicum is commonly known as Indian trumphet and widely used in Chinese medicine.
It is a flowering plant that belongs to a bignoiaceae family in the genus of oroxylum.
Oroxylum is naturalized to Indian subcontinent and commonly found on the footsteps of Himalayas and parts of Bhutan.
Plant Description
Its tree grows to a height of 12 m and the bark is grayish brown in colour having corky lenticels.
The leaves are large of about 0.5-1.5 m long and 8 cm broad having 2-3 pinnate.
The flowers are red-purple externally and pink-yellow internally with large erect racemes.
The fruit of Indian trumphet is long sword shaped capsule, 0.33-1 m long and 4-9 cm broad containing numerous flat seeds.
Cultivation
Indian trumphet is majorly cultivated in moist and temperate regions of Himalayas, Bhutan, and china.
Generally it is found at an altitude of 4000 feet.
Parts Used
Bark, roots, seeds.
Constituents
The main three constituents of stem and root are oroxylin A, baicalein and crysin. Apart from these constituents it also contains alkaloids, tannic acid, sitasterol, glactose and essential oil.
Uses
- The tree of Indian trumphet is generally grown as ornamental.
- The leaves and stems are thought to be edible. The seeds of oroxylum indicum are used in ayurvedic medicine.
- The root bark is reported to possess various actions such as astringent, bitter tonic, stomachic and anodyne.
- The bark is generally useable in traditional Chinese medicine.
- The bark is also used in Sri Lanka to make a traditional herbal medicine as a remedy for rheumatism and join pains.
Names
- English: Broken bones plant, Indian calosanthes, Indian Trumpet, Indian trumpet flower, midnight horror, oroxylum, tree of Damocles
- Chinese: hanyu pinyin
- Bengali: sona
- Hindi: bhut-vriksha, dirghavrinta, kutannat, manduk, patrorna, putivriksha, shallaka, shuran, son, vatuk
- Kannada: tattuna
- Konkani: davamadak
- Nepalese: tatelo
- Malayalam: palaqapayyani, vashrppathiri, vellappathiri
- Marathi: tayitu, tetu
- Sanskrit: aralu, shyonaka
- Singhala (Sri Lanka): Totila, Thotila
- Tamil: cori-konnai, palai-y-utaicci, puta-puspam
- Telugu: manduka-parnamu, pampena, suka-nasamu
