A medium sized deciduous tree, very conspicuous when in flower, 12-15 m in height with gum-containing grey bark exfoliating in irregular pieces, and somewhat crooked trunk; leaves 3-foliate, leaflets coriaceous, obtuse, glabrous above when old, finely silky and conspicuously reticulate veined beneath; flowers bright orange red, large, in rigid racemes; fruits pods, thickened at the sutures, containing a single seed.
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The bark is acrid, bitter, astringent, thermogenic, emollient, and aphrodisiac, appetizer, digestive, constipating, anthelmintic and tonic. It is useful in vitiated conditions of pitta and kapha, anorexia, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery, hemorrhoids, intestinal worms, bone fractures, rectal diseases, dysmenorrhea, gonorrhea, hepatopathy, ulcers, tumors, hydrocele and diabetes. The leaves are astringent, anti-inflammatory, anodyne and aphrodisiac, and are useful in pimples, boils, flatulence, colic, worm infestations, inflammations, arthralgia and hemorrhoids. The flowers are astringent, sweet, cooling, constipating, aphrodisiac, haemostatic, diuretic, febrifuge, depuratives and tonic. They are useful in vitiated conditions of pitta and kapha, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, menorrhagia, strangury, fever, leprosy, skin diseases, swellings, hyperdipsia, haemoptysis, arthritis, burning sensation, bone fractures, and are very efficacious in birth control. The seeds are purgative, ophthalmic, anthelmintic, rubefacient, depurative and tonic. They are useful in herpes, skin diseases, ringworm, ophthalmopathy, epilepsy, round worm, arthritis, flatulence, constipation and diabetes. The gum from the tree is known as Bengal kino.
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