IntroductionThe medicinal use of Delonix regia is mainly from the bark of the Delonix regia plant of the Leguminosae family. What does the Delonix regia look like? Delonix regia is a deciduous tree, 20m or more tall. The leaves are bipinnate, alternate, 20-60cm long, with 30-40 pinnae, each with 40-80 leaflets; the leaflets are oblong, 7-8mm long, 2.5-3mm wide, rounded at both ends, green above, light green below, and sparsely covered with short soft hairs on both sides. The racemes are terminal or axillary; the calyx is 2.5-2.9cm long, fused at the base to form a short tube, with 5 calyx teeth, oblong, and abrupt at the apex; the petals are 5, red, with yellow and white spots, nearly round, with long claws, 3.5-5.5cm long and about 3cm wide; the stamens are 10, separate, and red; the ovary is nearly sessile, with many ovules. The pods are linear, up to 50cm long, about 5cm wide, drooping, and woody. With many seeds. The flowering period is May and the fruiting period is October. Chemical compositionThe wood contains β-sitosterol, lupeol, quercetin, proline, lysine, alanine, valine, tyrosine, glucose, galactose and rhamnose; the bark contains erythritol, lupeol and β-sitosterol; the flowers contain β-sitosterol and its glucoside, hentriacontane, hentriacontanol, protocatechuic acid, quercetin and carotenoids; the flower buds contain 2-ketoglutaric acid, oxaloacetic acid, glyoxylic acid and pyruvic acid. The seeds contain galactomannan. These terms are unfamiliar to us, but you just need to know that Delonix regia contains alcohols and amino acids that are beneficial to human health. effectDelonix regia is sweet, light in taste and cold in nature. It can calm the liver and suppress yang, and is very effective in treating high blood pressure, dizziness, and restlessness. This is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica. The method of consumption is 6 to 15 grams, decocted into a soup and taken orally. |
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