धएरो-Fire- ame Bush ( Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz )
Common Name : Fire- ame Bush
Scientific Name : Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz
Nepali Name : Dhayero
Family Name : Lythraceae
Parts Used : Dried flower.
Main Uses : Flower yield a red dye.
Medicinal Properties : Flower, boiled in water, are taken in case of profuse menstruation, indigestion, Dysentery, bleeding from nose and mouth, Diarrhea etc.
Active Compounds : N/A
Introduction : Spreading perennial shrub about 3 m, sometimes up to 7 m high with drooping branches. Bark is rough red in color, thinner and easily extractable. Leaves are sessile, 5 to 12 cm long, 1 to 3 cm width, opposite, sometimes whorls of three, oblong to lanceolate, acuminate, entire, upper surface dark green and lower surface velvety, with black dots. Flowers short stalked, scarlet, in few-flowered axillary cymes.
Availability : Naturally distributed from 200 to 1500 m in dry and open places throughout Nepal.
Harvesting Time : April to May.
Description of traded part: Flower is crimson or red in color, having small petiole, like tube with sweet smell. Leaves and petiole pieces are mixed with flower.
Uses : Flower yield a red dye. Flower, boiled in water, are taken in case of profuse menstruation, indigestion, Dysentery, bleeding from nose and mouth, Diarrhea etc.
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