PALA INDIGO PLANT

 

 

The leaves are acrid, thermogenic, anodyne and hypotensive and are very usefull in odontalgia, vitiated conditions of vata and hypertension. The eeds are bitter, astringent, acrid, carminative, constipating, depurative, anthelmintic and febrifuge. They are usefull in vitiated conditions of Pitta and Kapha, dyspepsia etc.

Its pungent fresh leaves quickly relieve toothaches. Leaves, flowers and fruits are source of a kind of indigo called pala-indigo. White, close-grained wood looks like ivory and is much used for carving and wood-turning. In piles, fever, diarrhoea, roundworm and colic.

OTHER NAME : WRIGHTIA TINCTORIA, APOCYNACEAE , DYERS'S OLEANDER.