Haldina cordifolia (Roxb.) Ridsdale (= Adina cordifolia Hook. f.)

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 149

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.102.24380

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scientific name

Haldina cordifolia (Roxb.) Ridsdale (= Adina cordifolia Hook. f.)
status

 

Haldina cordifolia (Roxb.) Ridsdale (= Adina cordifolia Hook. f.)

Names.

Myanmar: hnaw, yangmaw. English: yellow teak.

Range.

Africa and Asia. In Myanmar, found in Bago, Mandalay, and Yangon.

Uses.

Flower: Buds used to treat headache, also to eliminate maggots from sores.

Note.

In Indo-China a decoction of the root is astringent, and is used to treat diarrhea and dysentery ( Perry 1980).

Reference.

Perry (1980).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Gentianales

Family

Rubiaceae

Genus

Haldina