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Uses of champaka - Michelia champaca Linn.

champaka :

champaka  : Michelia champaca Linn.


General Use:

Bark is used in fevers, flowers are stimulant, good for eyes and relives burning , and in skin diseases, Root bark is purgative, used in amenorrhoea. Flowers tonic, stomachic, carminative, used in dyspepsia, nausea, fever, also useful as a diuretic in renal diseases. Flower oil used in cephalgia. Bark stimulant, diuretic and febrifuge. Dried root and root-bark used as a purgative and emmenagogue

Therapeutic Uses:

Vrana
Krimi
Mutrakrchra
Vatarakta
Kushta
Kandu


Systemic Use:

  1. the flowers are bitter and are useful in leprosy, boils and itch.
  2. The flowers and fruits are considered bitter and cool remedies, and are used in dyspepsia, nausea and fever. 
  3. the flowers mixed with Sesamum oil form an external application, which is often prescribed in vertigo.
  4. the dried root and root-bark, mixed with curdled milk, are useful as an application to abscesses, clearing away or maturing the inflammation, and that, prepared as an infusion, it is a valuable emenagogue.
  5. the perfumed oil prepared from the flowers is a useful application in cephalalgia, ophthalmia, and gout, and that the oil of the seeds is rubbed over the abdomen to relieve flatulence. 


Administration:

flower powder
bark decoction


Pharmacological:

  1. flower bud - anti diabetic
  2. flower - hyperlipidemia 
  3. leaves - Anti-microbial , Anti-oxidant , Anti-cancer

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