| '''Uses''': Bark is used in dysentery and is prescribed in piles, anemia, asthma, bronchopneumonia, dropsy, dysurea, influenza, rheumatism, tooth- ache, vomiting and nausea, intestinal worms dyspepsia, chest complaints and the diseases of skin and the spleen.<ref>Ravindra Sharma, Medicinal Plants of India, 2003, Daya Publishing House, Delhi. pp 127.</ref> | | '''Uses''': Bark is used in dysentery and is prescribed in piles, anemia, asthma, bronchopneumonia, dropsy, dysurea, influenza, rheumatism, tooth- ache, vomiting and nausea, intestinal worms dyspepsia, chest complaints and the diseases of skin and the spleen.<ref>Ravindra Sharma, Medicinal Plants of India, 2003, Daya Publishing House, Delhi. pp 127.</ref> |
− | '''Chemical constituents''': Major total alkaloids 4%; bioactive steroidal alkaloid conessine 0.4%; kurchicine, conkurchine, holarrhine. Others- steroidal alkaloids, kurchiline.<ref>Quality Standards of Indian Medicinal Plants, Vol. I, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, 2003 pp 110.</ref> [11] | + | '''Chemical constituents''': Major total alkaloids 4%; bioactive steroidal alkaloid conessine 0.4%; kurchicine, conkurchine, holarrhine. Others- steroidal alkaloids, kurchiline.<ref>Quality Standards of Indian Medicinal Plants, Vol. I, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, 2003 pp 110.</ref> |