Sara kondrai Poo (or) Pudding Pipe Flower (or) Sonhali Flowers

Description

Sans- Nripadruma Aragbhada; Aravadam; Rajavraksha; Suvanaka, Eng- Indian Laburnum; Pudding Pipe tree ; Purging cassia, Hind- Sonahali; Amulthus, Gwalior & Duk – Amaltas; Girmalah; Kirvali, Ben- Bundarlati; Sonalu; Soondali; Sondal, Guj- Garmala, Mah- Bahava, Tel- Kondrakayi; Raelachettu; Aragvadhamu; Koelapenna; Relagujju, Tam- Konai; Irjviruttam; Konraikkai; Sarakkonnai or Sarakkonnoi, Mal- Konna, Can- Kallaemara, Kon- Kakkayi, Sinh- Ahalla, Arab- Khayarshambar.

Part Used: Pulp, root-bark, flowers, pods, leaves and root.

Uses:  It is used as fever, heart diseases, retained excretions, biliousness etc.. Externally leaves  ground into paste  are applied in ringworm; bark and leaves mixed and rubbed with oil are applied to pustules, ringworm, chilblains, insectsbite, facial paralysis and rheumatism. Laxative, good in liver diseases, intestinal ulceration, externally as a paste to resolve, as gargle, useful in chest diseases of children.