Medicinal Plants of Chandigarh
Medicinal Plants of Chandigarh
Medicinal Plants of Chandigarh
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JAMUN<br />
Syzygium cumini<br />
KALA BANSA<br />
Barleria prionitis<br />
Habit<br />
: Evergreen tree, flowers greenish-white and fragrant.<br />
Habit<br />
: Shrub with whitish bark, Flowers orange-yellow.<br />
Distribution<br />
: Throughout India.<br />
Distribution<br />
: India, Tropical Africa and Asia, Sri Lanka, South Africa.<br />
Parts used<br />
: Fruit, seed, bark.<br />
Parts used<br />
: Whole herb.<br />
Constitutes: Lauric, myristic, palmitic,<br />
stearic, oleic, linoleic, malvalic,<br />
sterculic, vernolic acid and β-<br />
sitosterol.<br />
Therapeutic uses: Fresh bark juice<br />
mixed with milk is used in diarrhea.<br />
The seed powder about 15 gm is<br />
administered orally thrice a day for 3-4<br />
months in diabetes. The bark is used in<br />
sore throats, bronchitis, asthma,<br />
ulcers and dysentery.<br />
Constitutes: Phenylethanol glycoside,<br />
Barlerinoside, Shanzhiside methyl<br />
ester. Berlerin, Acetylbarlerin,<br />
Lupulinoside.<br />
Therapeutic uses: Juice <strong>of</strong> the leaves<br />
given with honey in catarrhal<br />
affections <strong>of</strong> children. A paste <strong>of</strong> the<br />
roots applied to boils and glandular<br />
swellings. Leaves chewing relieves<br />
tooththache. Roots febrifuge.<br />
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