Morphological information

A small tree with lanceolate leaves 12.5- 20 cm long narrowed into a short petiole, secondary nerves rather distant joint by a prominent looping intramarginal one. Easily recognized by its very large handsome flowers about 7.5- 10 cm diameter (with the long stamens) and which are in short terminal racemose cymes with pairs of flowers (trichotomous cymes with the central axis not at once terminating in a flower). Sepals rounded. Fruit globose white 2.5- 5 cm, with 1.2 grey seeds loose in the large cavity of the succulant pericarp.

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Parts                       : Whole plant.

Status                     : Vulnerable

Phytochemistry: Ocimene, α- pinene, (+) camphene, ( - ) limonene, cadienene, (+) borneol and (α- terpineol isolated from essential oil.

 

Ayurvedic

The bark is sweet, acrid, hot, astringent to the bowels; improves the voice; used in asthma, thirst, fatigue, dysentery, heavy speech, bronchitis. The fruit is sweet and tasty; indigestible astringent to the bowels, removes triclosa.

Unani

The fruit is sweet with a flavour, indigestible, tonic to the brain. Used in liver complaints. The seeds are astringent to the bowels; used in syphilis.

 

Others

In Bhamo, Upper Burma, the leaves are boiled and used for sore eyes.In Indo- China the bark is considered a good astringent; every part of the plant is digestive, stimulant, antidontalgic. In Combodia, the water in which the leaves have macreated is used in fevers.

 

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