MEDICINAL PLANTS OF SIKKIM

 

 

Basic Information

 

 

Species                                   : Wrightia  arborea (Dennst.) Mabberley.

Local Name                             : Karingi, Khirra (Nep), Lelemnyok (Lep)

Synonym                                 : Wrightia tomentosa Roem & Schult.

Family                                     : Apocynaceae

Habitat                                   : A small deciduous tree found throughout the warmer part.

Distribution                            : Distributed throughout tropical areas.

Sikkim                                    : Naya Bazar, Rabong, Singtam, Melli-Jorethang, and Dikchu.

Outside                                    : West Bengal (Darjeeling), Gujarat, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bhutan (Samchi 44 district, Phuntsoling district, Tsonga

                                                district, Mongar district and Tashigang district).

General                                  : Eastern Himalaya, India, Srilanka, Myanmar, Thailand, South China.

Morphological information

A shrub often with slender cord like branches. Leaves opposite, densely tomentose, elliptic, caudate acurninate. Flowers in many flowered cyrnes, yellowish with orange coronal scales. Corolla lobes

linear or obovate-oblong. Stamens at the top of the tube, conniving around and adhering to the stigma. Fruits linear, erect follicles, connate into a cylindrical with a deep groove on each side till maturitv, rough with tubercles.

Flowering                    :

Fruiting                       :

History                       :

Parts                           : Seeds, leaves and bark.

Status                         : Vulnerable.

Phytochemistry          : α-amyrin acetate, taraxerol acetate, lupenone, taraxerol and β-sitosterol isolated from stems and leaves. (J. Indian Chem. Soc.

                                    1982, 59, 810).

Medicinal                     : The leaves are administered with salt for relief from toothache. Bark is used in menstrual and renal complaints. Seeds are

                                     beneficial in seminal weakness.

 


Reference

 

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2. Anonymous (1992). The Useful Plants of India. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR New Delhi. 691.

3. Bhujel, R.B. (1996). Studies on the Dicotyledonous Flora of Darjeeling District. Unpublished Ph.D Thesis University of North Bengal. 538.

4. Chatterjee, Asima; Satyesh Chandra Pakrashi (1991). The Treatise on Indian Medicinal Plants (Vol. 4). Publications and Information directorate. New Delhi. 125.           

5. Grierson, A.J.C. & D.G, Long. Flora of Bhutan (Vol. 2, Part 2). Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 538.

6. Kirtikar, K.R.; B.D. Basu (1993). Indian Medicinal Plants (Vol. 2). Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh Dehradun. 1583-1584.

7. Progress Report of the Project "Studies on Medicinal Plants of Sikkim" (1998-2001). State Council of Science and Technology for Sikkim.