Ixora coccinea, Chethi, Thechi, Sacred Ixora, ചെത്തി, തെച്ചി

Family: Rubiaceae
Vernacular names: Chethi, Thechi, ചെത്തി, തെച്ചി (Malayalam), Sacred Ixora (English), Paranti (Sanskrit), Thetti, Sinduram (Tamil)
Distribution: Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
Description: Bushy shrubs. Leaves opposite, elliptic to oblong. Corymbs, flowers scarlet and yellow. Fruits a berry, didymous; seeds 2, globose, 0.3-0.4 cm diam.
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: In the lateritic plains, also grown in homesteads
Flowering & Fruiting: Throughout the year

Parts used: Root, leaves and flower
Properties & Uses: Roots are sedative and stomachic; used in hiccup, fever, gonorrhoea, diarrhoea and dysentery. Flowers are used in the treatment of dysentery, leucorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, haemoptysis and catarrhal bronchitis. Leaves are used in diarrhea.
Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk, Unani,
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