Sonpatha
Description :
Broken Bones Tree is a native tree often grown as an ornamental for its strange appearance. The long, podded fruits hang down from bear branches, looking like dangling sickles or swords in the night.
Additionally, after the large leaf stalks wither, they fall off the tree and collect near the base of the trunk, appearing to look like a pile of broken limb bones.
It is a medium sized deciduous tree, growing 8-12 m tall. The bark is grayish brown with corky lenticels. The leaves are huge, 0.5-1.5 m long, 2-3 pinnate, leaflets 12 cm long and 8 cm broad.
The flowers are reddish- purple outside and pale, spinkish-yellow within, numerous, in large erect racemes.
Details :
Botanical Name : Oroxylum Indicum
Hindi Name : bhut-vriksha, dirghavrinta, kutannat, manduk (the flower), patrorna,putivriksha, shallaka, shuran, son, vatuk,soanpatha,sonpata
Common Name : Indian Trumpet Tree,Broken Bones Tree
Manipuri Name : Shamba
Marathi Name : tayitu, tetu
Tamil Name : cori-konnai, palai-y-utaicci, puta-puspam (the flower)
Malayalam Name : palaqapayyani, vashrppathiri,vellappathiri
Telugu Name : manduka-parnamu, pampena,suka-nasamu, tundilamu
Kannada Name : tattuna
Konkani Name : davamadak
Bengali Name : Sona
Oriya Name : Tatelo
Assamese Name : Toguna
Sanskrit Name : aralu, shyonaka
Family Name Name : Bignoniaceae
Part Used : Roots, Leaves, Fruits, Seeds
Medicinal Uses :
- The roots are sweet, astringent, bitter, acrid, refrigerant, expectorant, digestive, carminative, febrifuge, diuretic, antimicrobial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory and tonic.They useful for vata and kapha, dropsy, flatulence, colic, diarrhea and dysentery.
- Stem bark paste is applied for the cure of scabies and to treat arthritis.
- Leaf decoction is given in treating stomachache, ulcers, rheumatism pain and enlarged spleen.
- Mature fruits are useful in treating cough, bronchitis, piles, jaundice dyspepsia, smallpox, colic, leucoderma, pharngodymia, cardiac disorders, gastropathy, hemorrhoids and cholera.
- Stem bark and fruits are employed as mordent, the stem bark yields a khaki color dye.
- Seeds are used as purgative. Dried seed powder used by women to induce conception.
- The medicated oil of syonaka in seasame oil base instilled into ears mitigation the pains of Otitis.