Saraca asoca, Asokam, Ashoka tree, അശോകം

Family: Fabaceae
Vernacular names: Asokam, അശോകം (Malayalam), Ashoka tree (English), Asokah (Sanskrit), Asok (Hindi), Asogam (Tamil)
Distribution: India and Myanmar
Description: Small trees. Leaves paripinnate, alternate. Flowers bisexual, yellow-orange or red, in dense sessile paniculate corymbs, axillary to leaves or leaf scars. Fruit a pod, flat, oblong; seeds 2-8, ovoid, slightly compressed.
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Evergreen forests, also grown as ornamental tree in the plains
Flowering & Fruiting: February-August

Parts used: Bark, leaves, seeds and flowers
Properties & Uses: Depurative, refrigerant, anthelmintic, stomachic, febrifuge and demulcent. The bark is stimulating effect on endometrium and ovarian tissue and is used to treat menstrual pain and menorrhagia pain due to uterine fibroids, leucorrhea, etc. Bark is also used to treat fever, dipsia, burning sensation, ulcers, bleeding piles, skin diseases, leucorrhea and pimples. The seeds is used for treating stomachalgia. The flowers are used to treat dysentery, scabies in children and inflammation.
Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk, Unani, Homeo,
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