Morphological information

Climbers often 9 m, stems robust, branched, grooved, the younger shoot green but older light grey, leave long, palmately 3-5 lobed to about the middle, the lower side with pale, frequent dark colour circular gland. Cordate, ovate oblong, deulate & serrated petiole long, outside; male flowers becomes calyx tube 3.8 cm long pubescent, female flower axillary, solitary, fruit globose, red when ripe, pericarp thick.

Flowering                   : June-August

Fruiting                       : September-November

History                        :

Parts                           : Fruit and root.

Status                         : Vulnerable

Ayurvedic                    : The fruit is useful in Asthma, earache and ozoeni.

Unani

The fruit is bitter, carminative, purgative, abortificant lessens inflammation, cures hemicrania, weakness of limbs, heat of brains, apthalnua, leprosy, used in epilepsy rheumatism, gangle good for toothache, the smoke causes haematemesis; the seeds are emetic, purgative.

The fruit provided and well mixed with warm coconut oil, forms. A valuable application to sores under ears and nostril. The juice of the fruit or the root bark boiled with gingly oil is used with good effect as a bath oil, for the relief of long standing or recurrent attacks of headache. The fruit and the root boiled with mustard oil are used for headache by the Mundas of Chotanagpur.

Traditional

A) The tubers mixed with equal parts of roots of Stryhchnos potatorun, Symplocos racemosa and Terminala chebula, and rubbed in cows urine even applied on tumors caused by plague, the fruits are pounded and mixed in coconut oil for application on sores, the root with equal portion of colocynth root is rubbed into a paste and applied on carbuncles, the root is also used in vertenary medicine, especially for the treatment of the inflammation of the lungs, whole plant showed pronounced biological activity( C.S.).

B) 1-2 spoonful of dry powder prepared from the placentas of mature fruit is orally administered for one month in diabetic patients.

Other                    : The fruits are poisonous and the seed extracts show haernaglutinating activity.

 

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