Botanical Name: Tamarix gallica
Sanskrit Name: Jhavuka
English Name: Tamarisk
Hindi Names: Jhav, Jhau
Family: Tamaricaceae

Description of Tamarix gallica:

Tamarix gallica is a gregarious, bushy shrub or a small tree. The bark is brownish, smooth when young and rough when mature; the leaves are minute, not sheathing; the flowers, pink or white, on long, very slender, spike-like racemes in terminal panicles; the capsules are conical, trigonous, tapering and pale pink; the seeds, with a plume of white hairs.

Principal Constituents:

Tamarixin along with traces of its aglucone, tamarixetin.

Medicinal Uses:

Because of its mild and sweet taste, it is used to move the bowels in children as well as in bleeding disorders like menorrhagia, bleeding per rectum and epistaxis.

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