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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