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Specimen profile
Indian Cork Tree
Millingtonia hortensis · Bignoniaceae
Skt · Akasha Nimba — “The sky-tall tree with neem-like leaves and fragrant blossoms”Hindi · Neem ChameliMal · KayamalliTam · Maramalli
A graceful tall tree with deeply-corked medicinal bark and nocturnal flowers that relieve pulmonary congestion.
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Akasha Nimba is a towering, slender ornamental and medicinal tree prized for its intensely fragrant trumpet-like night-blooming white blossoms. The tree features an extraordinarily thick, soft, corky bark that is processed in traditional Indian folk medicine for intermittent fevers. Inhalation of the dried flowers opens constricted bronchial pathways and calms severe asthma.
Identification markers
Narrow pyramidal crown with deeply cracked yellowish-gray corky bark, pinnately compound foliage, long pendulous trumpet-shaped white flowers, and long flattened capsules.
Rasa
Tikta, Kashaya
Guna
Laghu, Ruksha
Virya
Sheeta
Vipaka
Katu
Prabhava
Kasashvasahara
Dosha effect
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