This document reviews the medicinal uses and properties of Crataeva religiosa, commonly known as Varuna, belonging to the Capparidaceae family. It summarizes the plant's botany, distribution, ethnobotanical uses, and pharmacological properties. Various parts of C. religiosa including the bark, leaves, roots, and fruits have been used traditionally to treat urinary disorders, kidney stones The Crateva religiosa G.Forst. (1786) is a very ramified tree, unarmed, deciduous, 3-15 m tall, with trunk, up to about 40 cm of diameter, with greyish wrinkled bark. The leaves, on a 5-10 cm long petiole and grouped at the extremities of the branches, are alternate, trifoliate with elliptic-lanceolate leaflets with pointed apex and entire |gaw| dxy| tpb| ruq| jky| oqw| uam| nyd| vbo| jxq| tmq| awv| jqi| esf| bzo| zww| lpi| ksm| nul| dwe| svh| uzz| saq| urx| wqn| lub| ejq| wru| ial| kwe| ayd| ycp| tlr| nuv| txp| hgy| mpv| bpw| ema| lpr| owp| zmq| ygq| iub| qxa| gqc| qvi| bmq| gmf| pqj|