Butea monosperma (Lam.) Taub.
Traditional Knowledge
Useful plant parts :
Seed
Uses in traditional medicine :
- Seed oil is a remedy for various skin diseases of children and adults
- A remedy for snake bites
- Used to treat urinary diseases, suppuration of boils, stomach diseases and dysentery
Scientific Research
Chemical constituents:
Flavonoid: butin from seeds; flavonoid glucosides: butrin, isobutrin, isomonospermoside, monospermoside, calconoid: butein and its glucosides, coreopsin, isocoreopsin and sulfurein from flowers
Bioactivity :
Alcohol extract of bark: wound healing; petroleum ether and alcohol extract of flowers: free radical scavenger, anticonvulsant, antihyperglycemic; isobutrin and butrin: antihepatotoxic; ethanol and ethylacetate extracts of stem bark: antidiarrheal, antiobese, antifungal against Cladosporium cladosporioides; butein: antioxidative, proapoptotic
Clinical:
Ingredient of ‘Pippali rasayana’, an ayurvedic drug prepared with other herbs used to treat giardiasis
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