ໝາກລີ້ນໄມ້ / Indian trumpet flower

Use
Food
Income
Medicine
Scientific Name / Family
Oroxylum indicum (L.) Kurz / Bignoniaceae
Synonyms
Arthrophyllum ceylanicum Miq.
Arthrophyllum reticulatum Blume ex Miq.
Bignonia indica L.
Bignonia lugubris Salisb.
Bignonia pentandra Lour.
Bignonia quadripinnata Blanco
Bignonia tripinnata Noronha
Calosanthes indica (L.) Blume
Hippoxylon indica (L.) Raf.
Spathodea indica (L.) Pers.
Other Names
ໄທ: ເພກາ, ກາໂດດົງ, ດອກກາ, ດູແຄ, ບີໂຄ, ມະລີດໄມ້, ມະລີ້ນໄມ້, ລີ້ນຟ້າ, ໝາຫລີ້ນກາງ, ໝາກລີ້ນຊ້າງ
ຫວຽດນາມ: ນູກນັກ, ຊັງດານ, ໂຊໂດທູເຢັນ, ຮ່ວງບານນາມ, ມອຍຮູ, ດິບ, ທູນົກ
ຈີນ: ມູຣູ ໄຣຊວງກູ, ຈຽນແຊງຕີ,
ກຳປູເຈ່ຍ: ປີກາ, ສລາວດໍ
ການຄ້າ: broken bones
Botanical Description

Oroxylum indicum is a small branched tree with 5-10 m high, laxly branched or unbranched. Leaves opposite, 2-4 pinnately compound. Leaflets triangular-ovate, glabrous, becoming after drying, base sub rounded, oblique, margin entire. Inflorescence racemose, terminal, calyx large, purple, broadly campanulate, fleshy. Corolla purple-red, campanulate, limb slightly bilabiate, tomentose basally, stamen 5, sub-equal, style filiform, stigma ligulate, compressed.  Capsule woody, valves with midrib, margin convex. Seed rounded, winged including papery. 

Description of Use

The bark, leaves, root, root bark, fruits, leaves and seeds are used to treat snake bite. 
 1) Bark: The decoction of the bark is taken for curing gastric ulcer and a paste made of the bark applied to cure mouth cancer, scabies and other skin diseases. Juice of the bark is used as a tonic and astringent useful in diarrhea, diaphoretic, rheumatism and dysentery.
 2) Root: It is used to cure inflammations, leprosy, dropsy, sprains, neuralgia, hiccough, cough, asthma, bronchitis, anorexia, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery. 
 3) Root Bark: It is used as astringent, bitter tonic, stomachic, anodyne and sudorific and also useful in diarrhea, dysentery and ottorrhoea. 
 4) Leaf: Paste of leaves are used externally to treat an enlarged spleen, headache and   ulcer, also used as emollient & anodyne. 
 5) Fruit: Tender fruits are prescribed for expectorant, carminative and stomachic and also useful in cough, bronchitis, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic and leucoderma. The mature fruits are to cure acrid, sweet, anthelmintic and stomachic and also useful in sore throat, cardiac disorders, worm infestations, gastric disorders, bronchitis. 
6) Seed: The seed are used as purgative

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