Woodfordia fruticosa - Dhataki

Dhataki

Woodfordia fruticosa is a wonderful medicinal herb commonly known as Dhataki. It is powerful astringment.It relaxes pitta and kapha doshas.

Uses

Piles, Dysentery, Menorrhagia.

Parts Used

Stem, Leaves, Roots.

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit
English

Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

Rasa

Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Habit

Shrub

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature
Simple	Opposite	Leaves subsessile, 4-11 x 2-4 cm, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, subcoriaceous, whitish velvety tomentose and finely orangish- or black-punctate beneath.

Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
Bisexual	Axillary cymes	crimson	12	slightly zygomorphic, in 2-16-flowered axillary cymes; pedicels to 1 cm long. Calyx tube 1-1.5 cm long, tubular; lobes 6, short, more or less triangular, alternating with small callous appendages. Petals 6, red, 3-4 mm long, lanceolate-acuminate. Stamens 12, inserted near the bottom of the calyx tube, 0.5-1.5 cm long. Ovary 4-6 mm long, oblong, 2-celled; ovules many; style 0.7-1.5 cm long.

Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information
Capsule	0.6-1 x 0.25-0.4 cm		ellipsoid, included in the calyx	Seeds numerous, trigonous-ovoid.

Other features

Mode of Propagation

Seeds, Softwood cutting.

How to plant/cultivate

Plants are frost tolerant. Requires a sunny position.

Commonly seen growing in areas

Sunny places, Agricultural land, Open waste land, Degraded places.

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