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  • भूमीसहः
  • भूर्जः
  • भूर्जपत्रः
  • भूरिफॆना
  • भल्लातकम्
  • भल्ली
  • भाण्टिका
  • भार्गवी
  • भार्गी
  • भिक्षुः
  • भिन्ध्यः
  • भिन्नयॊजिनी
  • भिषङ्माता
  • भीरुः
  • मुकुन्दः
  • Name - भूमीसहः

    Botanical name - Tectona grandis

    Description - Deciduous trees with angled branches. Bark fibrous, light brown or grey, exfoliating in thin strips. Leaves broadly elliptic- ovate, coriaceous. Flowers small, white, in terminal panicles. Drupe stellate-tomentose, globose, enclosed in accrescent calyx.

    Chemical Constituents- Plant contains diterpene tectograndinol. Roots contain lapachol, tectol, dehydrotectol, tectoquinone, Beta-lapachone, dehydro- alpha-lapachone and Beta-sitosterol . Heart-wood contains anthraquinones. Essential oil contains tectoquinone

    Use - Oily product from wood chips applied to eczema. Kernels yield a fatty oil which is used in scabies and to promote the growth of hair. Flowers used in biliousness, bronchitis and urinary discharges. Both flowers and seeds considered diuretic. Bark astringent, used in bronchitis.