[[File:Caesalpinia sappan1.jpg|thumb|right|''Pathanga'', ''Caesalpinia sappan'', ''Pattaranjaka'']]
This plant has many uses. It possesses medicinal abilities as an antibacterial and for its anticoagulant properties. It also produces '''Sappan Wood''' is a valued type of reddish dye called brazilinsmall thorny tree, used for dyeing fabric as well as making red paints 6-9 m in height and inks. Slivers of heartwood are used for making herbal drinking water 15-25 cm in various regions, such as Kerala, and Central Java, where it's usually mixed trunk diameter with Ginger, Cinnamon and Clovea few prickly branches. Heartwood also contains juglone (5-hydroxy-1Biancaea sappan is a prickly,4-naphthoquinone)shrubby tree that can grow up to 20 metres tall, also an active antimicrobial principlebut is usually smaller.
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