Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants
Bastard Rose Wood
Family: Fabaceae (pea family)
Genus: Dalbergia
Botanical name: Dalbergia lanceolaria
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Goraksha
Hindi: Takoli
English: Bastard rose wood
Malayalam: Velliitti, Kannan Vaaka
Genus: Dalbergia
Botanical name: Dalbergia lanceolaria
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Goraksha
Hindi: Takoli
English: Bastard rose wood
Malayalam: Velliitti, Kannan Vaaka
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Large, deciduous, densely fallacious tree, up to 25m tall, bark smooth, gray. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets 11-17, elliptic- oblong. Flowers pale pink in short unilateral racemes. Fruit pod, purplish brown and 1-3 seeded.
The decoction of bark is used in dyspepsia. The seed oil is applied in rheumatic affections.