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Properties Uses : Saraca indica or Saraca asoka is a small evergreen tree native to India.Iit is popularly called Asoka or Ashoka, Ashok, or Sita Ashok. Ashoka is considered sacred tree in India. And is said to be a wonderful herb that claims to cure several diseases. According to Ayurvedic medicine, it is the one herb that stands out as especially useful for treating excessive uterine bleeding. Ayurvedic texts describe more than 50 preparations of Ashoka for the treatment of a variety of ailments in which the extract from stem bark is used as one of the main ingredients.

Odor is aromatic and the taste is highly pungent. Pepper contains volatile oil, the crystalline alkaloids: piperine, piperidine and piperettine, and a resin. The alcoholic extract taken from the pippali or Long pepper contains the alkaloid piperine (about 6%), which is slightly higher than that in black pepper.

The Indian traditional system of medicine prescribed this plant for diseases including diabetes mellitus called madhumeh in Sanskrit. The heart wood is astringent, bitter acrid, anti inflammatory, anthelmintic, anodyne. The aqueous extract from the heart wood of the tree demonstrates to reduce the glucose absorption from the gastrointestinal tract, and improve insulin and pro-insulin levels. It also said to be effective in beta-cell regeneration. Beside diabetes, it is also good for elephantiasis, leucoderma, diarrhoea, dysentary, rectalgia, cough and greyness of hair.