pterocarptriol and pterocarpdiolone; pigments santalins A and B. The bark contains triterpenoids—beta-ampyrone, lupenone and lupeol derivatives. The sapwood gave acetyl oleanolic aldehyde, acetyl oleanolic acid and erythrodiol.
An ethanolic extract (95%) of the wood powder was found effective in
lowering blood sugar levels in fasting, fed, glucose-loaded and streptozotocin diabetic models in rats.
A cream prepared from the methanolic extract of the heartwood of Red Sandalwood and rhizomes of Curcuma longa showed 95.46% inhibition of oedema in combination (Curcuma ionga and red sandalwood showed 65.62 and 64.14% inhibition respectively, when used individually).
A decoction of the heartwood produced potentiation of pentobarbitoneinduced hypnosis in albino mice; blocked conditioned avoidance response in rats and showed anticonvulsant and anti-inflammatory activities.
Dosage Heartwood—3—6 g powder. (API, Vol. III.)
Pterospermum acerifolium
Wild.
Family Stercuiiaceae.
Habitat Maharashtra, Manipur, North Bengal, Bihar and Assam, Western Ghats and Andaman Islands.
English Hathipafia.
Ayurvedic Muchukunda, Muchakunda, Kshatravriksha, Chivuka, Prativishnuka, Muchukunda Champaa. Karnikaara (also equated with Cassiafistula).
Unani Gul-e-Muchkun. Siddha/Tamil Vennangu. Action Flower—anti-inflammatory,
styptic (used for bleeding piles, haematuria, ulcers). Charred
526 Pterospermum canescens Roxb.
flowers and bark, mixed with the powder of Mallotus philippinensis, are applied to smallpox eruptions.
The fresh flowers yielded kaempferol -3-0 - beta- D -galactoside, along with luteolin and its 7-0-glucoside. The leaves also contain betulin, lupeol, bauerenol, friedelin and betasitosterol.
Dosage Flower—3—6 g powder. (CCRAS.)
Pterospermum canescens Roxb.
Synonym P suberfolium Lam. non- Roxb.
Family Sterculiaceae.
Habitat Karnataka and Tamil
