Linn.Family: Magnoliaceae.
Habitat: Native to North America; found in the Himalayas and the Nilgiri hills up to 2,100 m.
English: Bull Bay, Great Laurel Magnolia, Southern Magnolia.Ayurvedic: Him-Champaa.Action: Bark—anti-inflammatory, stimulant, diaphoretic. Wood— toxic. Plant is used against cold, headache and stomach-ache. Leaf extract—fungitoxic.
The leaves gave germacanolide lactones, a guaianolide (magnograndio- lide, melampomagnolide A and B); the wood, quaternary aporphine alkaloids; bark, cyclocolorenone; root bark, eudesmanolides; seeds, phenolic constituents.The sesquiterpene ketone, cyclocol- orenone, also found in leaves, shows antifungal activity.Magnolia pterocarpa Roxb., synonym M. sphenocarpa Roxb. (Vana- Champaa), Dhulichampaa) bark contains sesamin, eudesmin, fargesin, imperatorin, dimethyl-terephthalate and beta-sitosterol. Powdered bark is used for fevers and cough.
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