Medicinal Uses of
#Kashtadaru
#(False Ashok)
Medicinal Uses of Kashtadaru (False Ashok)
Know about Kashtadaru Tree botanical description, medicinal properties, medicinal uses in Ayurveda, It’s health benefits, dosage, contraindications and side-effect of different parts of this plant.
The Latin name of False Ashok tree is Polyalthia longifolia.
It is also known as Ulkatah, and Kashtdaru. It belongs to plant family Annonaceae,
the custard apple family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs.
It is a tall evergreen tree with a straight trunk, and dense, slim, glossy, long leaves.
False Ashoka Tree
Overview
Polyalthia longifolia is also a medicinal tree, and has been commonly used by people in the treatment of fever,
skin diseases,
diabetes,
hypertension,
and intestinal parasites.
False Ashok tree, is wrongly equated with the name Asoka by some, and is often used as a substitute or as an adulterant to the genuine Asoka bark. But it is not advisable to use false Ashok as substitute of True Ashok. It is completely different from true Ashok tree, which is Saraca asoca. Saraca asoca bears yellow-orange, large bunch of sweet smelling flowers throughout the year.
The bark of Ashok is used in the treatment of gynecological disorders,
flowers, and leaves are rubbed on the skin to get relief from skin diseases. Ashok is well-known scientifically proven female tonic.
General Information
Fake Ashoka / Fake Devdaru, is an ornamental tree cultivated throughout the hotter-drier parts of India. It has straight trunk, drooping branches, and broadly columnar shape.
The entire length of the tree is covered by dark green leaves.
The leaves are simple, alternate, lanceolate, up to 8.7 inches long, and 1.75 inches wide with a short petiole.
The leaf margin is upturned, and undulating. Emerging leaves are coppery, soft, and delicate to the touch.
The flowers which are not clearly visible appear in spring or early summer.
They have 5 narrowly triangular,
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