Malitha

Scientific name: Woodfordia fruticosa
Family name: LYTHRACEAE
English name: Fire-flame bush
Local name: Malitha
Description: Shrubs, 1-5 m tall; stems and branches pendulous, long, pubescent when young, becoming glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-14 × 1-4 cm, abaxially sparsely to densely tomentose and orange to black glandular punctate, base rounded to sub cordate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences condensed axillary shoots of 1-15 flowers; floral tube light red, red-orange, or deep red, greenish, 9-15 mm. Capsules elongate, elliptic. Seeds reddish brown, about 1.5 mm diameter.
Status: Native
Edible parts: none
Ayurvedic Treatments – Hemorrhoids
Liver diseases
Dysentery
Snake bites
Dropsy
Spleen disorders
Fevers
Asthma
Fistula
Heart diseases
Lung diseases
Insanity
Apoplexy
Nervous system disorders
Leprosy
Blood diseases

PARTS USED IN TREATMENT:

Leaves
Flowers

RELATED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES:

Pacifies vitiated kapha and Pitta Doshas

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