Botanical Name : Woodfordia Fruticosa
Sanskrit Name : Dhai phul                                        
English Name : Fire flame bush
Family :Lythaceae                                  
Part Used: Flower        

Description of Woodfordia Fruticosa :
A much-branched, beautiful shrub, with fluted stems and long, spreading branches, 1-3 m. high, rarely up to 7 m., commonly occurring throughout North India, ascending to an altitude of c. 1,500 m. in the Himalayas, but rather scarce in South India. It is sometimes cultivated in gardens for its flowers, which are borne during the summer months. Bark reddish brown, peeling off in thin, fibrous strips; leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; flowers numerous, brilliant red in dense axillary paniculate-cymose clusters; capsules ellipsoid, membranous; seeds brown, minute, smooth obovate.

Medicinal Uses:
The flowers are acrid, astringent, styptic, depurative, utreine sadative, constipating, antibacterial, corrective of urinary pigments, febrifuge and alexeteric. They are useful in the conditions of kapha and pitta, leprosy, burning sensation, skindiseases, diarrhoea, dysentery, fever, headache, hemorrhoids, herpes, internal hemorrhage, leukorrhea, liver disorders, menorrhagia, ulcers, wounds. Juice of leaves are used in bilious sickness. They are also valued as a stimulant in pregnancy.

Principal Constituents:
Woodfordins A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and were identified from the flowers.

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