Plant Profile
Herb descriptions
Botany
Binomial nomenclature
Butea superba
Scientific Name and Description
Butea superba ROXB.
Herb Family
Plant type
Shrub
Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular
| Hindi | bel-palas, kesu, kimsuka, palas, palaslata |
| Kannada | balli-muttaga, dagadar, ippaarathi, kaithi, mullu mutthuga, mullumuttuga, muthugabilu, muthugina-baili, muthuginaballi, muttanabilu, mutthugada balli, muttugada balli, muttuginaballi, valavarai |
| Malayalam | palas-vel, palas-wail, valli-murukka, valliplach-cha |
| Marathi | beltivas, palasavela, palasvel, yelparas |
| Sanskrit | latapalasa, latapalasha, palasha-niryasam, palasini, vallipalasah |
| Tamil | kodi-murukkam, kodi-murukkan, kodi-palasham, koti murukkan, kotimurukkam, kotippalacam, murukkan pishin, palasha-pishin |
| Telugu | baaranki chettu, moduga, modugaige, modugatheega, modugatige, mothugatiga, teegamoduga, theegemoduga, thigamoduga, thivvamoduga, tiga moduga, tigamuduga, tige-palashamu, tigemoduga, tivvamoduga |
| Common names | Kwao Krua, Red Kwao Krua, |
Plants Medicinal Value
Medicinal Systems
Ayurved
Siddha
Folk
Herb usable parts
Flowers
Whole plant
Ethnopharmacology use
Butea superba Roxb.
Habit -Scandent shrub
Parts used -Whole plant
Application -Piles; stomach; Aphrodisiac pain; jaundice; snake bite; labour pains; scorpion sting; insect bite;
Treatment -General
References -Dey and De 2012, Sreeramulu et al. 2013
Herbs Medical Indications
Herbs Medical Indications (चिकित्सीय संकेत)
References
Literature
Literature
Dey and De 2012,
Sreeramulu et al. 2013
Flora of Rajasthan Vol. 1 Author - B.V.Shetty & V.Singh
Flora of Bankura District(West Bengal) Author - Sanyal M.N.
The Flora of Orissa Volume 1 Author - H. O. Saxena, M. Brahmam
Flora of Madhya Pradesh Vol I Author - D.M.Verma, N.P.Balakrishnan, R.D.Dixit
Flora of Gujarat State Vol 1 Author - G.L.Shah
Flora of Maharashrta State (Dicotyledons) Volume 1 Author - N.P.Singh, P.Lakshminarasimhan, S.Karthikeyan & P.V. Prasanna
FLORA OF KARNATAKA VOL-1 Author - C.J. SALDHANA.
Flora of Srikakulam District (Andhra Pradesh) Author - Rolla Seshagiri Rao, S.Hara Sriramulu
Published 11 February 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.18.4.1-112
The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Department of AYUSH
Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)
Citations
Herb citations
Butea superba. (2023, December 15). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butea_superba