Wrightia Tinctoria

• Botanical Name : Wrightia Tinctoria
• Family Name : Apocynaceae
• Common Name : Pala Indigo Plant, Dyers’s Oleander.
• Part Used : Bark, Seeds
• Habitat : Throughout india upto 1200 m.
• Product offered : Seeds

Uses : The leaves are acrid, thermogenic, anodyne and hypotensive and are very useful in odontalgia, vitiated conditions of vata and hypertension. The seeds are bitter, astringent, acrid, carminative, constipating, depurative, anthelmintic and febrifuge. They are useful 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.