Ashoka health benefit

Botanical name: for ashoka is Saraca Indica or Jonesia Ashok. Ashoka is an Ayurvedic herb.

As of April 2009, no human studies with Ashoka herb could be found on Medline.

Saracin, a seed integument lectin from ashoka, has immune influencing potential.
Saracin: A lectin from Saraca indica seed integument induces apoptosis in human T-lymphocytes.
Arch Biochem Biophys. 1999 Nov 15; Department of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160 012, India.
Saracin, a seed integument lectin from Saraca indica Ashoka has been found to be mitogenic for human lymphocytes, and this mitogenic activity could be inhibited in presence of fetuin. Further, treatment with saracin could induce secretion of IL-2 in a culture of resting human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Saracin has a higher affinity for the CD8(+) than CD4(+) T cells. Lymphocytes cultured under different conditions has shown that this lectin could induce apoptosis in activated T-lymphocytes.  Saracin seems to be an interesting immunomodulator for the mammalian immune system.

Flowers & flower buds of Ashoka Saraca indica Linn have antibacterial activity.

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