Botanical Name : Casearia esculenta
Sanskrit Name: Saptarangi
Family: Root, Stem

Plant Part Used: Root, Stem

Description of Casearia esculenta:
A shrub or a tree with a pale yellow bark.

The root and the root bark are extensively used in the indigenous system of medicine as an anti diabetic due to their hypoglycemic activity. The roots are especially efficacious in milder chronic diabetic cases. The root contains leucopelargonidin, arabinose, dulcitol. ß-sitosterol and another sterol, and two resinous substances having hypoglycemic activity have also been reported.

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