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long, variable, oblong- elliptic, ovate or suborbicular, serrate or entire,
three nerved, glabrous above covered beneath with a dense whitish or buff
tomentum, prickles solitary or in pairs, 2.5 cm long. Flowers bisexual,
greenish-yellow in small axillary clusters or short peduncled axillary cymes.
Drupes globose or ovoid, succulent, fleshy, smooth, yellow or orange
when ripe, stone 1-2 celled. Flowering and Fruiting : September – January
(Cooke, 1967; Anonymous, 2000b; Anonymous, 1976; Anonymous,
1993; Brandis, 1972).
DISTRIBUTION
Found wild throughout India in waste places or tropical forests and in the
outer Himalaya upto 1500m. (Anonymous, 1976). Also occurs in Sri Lanka,
Malacca, Afghanistan, China, Australia, Tropical Africa and Burma
(Hooker, 1973).
PART(S) USED
Fruit, stem bark, leaf, root, seed (B.N., 1982).
ACTION AND USES
The ripe fruit is indigestible, aphrodisiac, anodyne, astringent, cooling,
stomachic, styptic, tonic, expectorant, mild laxative and removes
impurities from the blood. Leaves and twigs paste applied to abscesses, boils
and curbuncles to promote suppuration and to strangury. Stem bark
astringent, powder or decoction useful in diarrhoea, dysentery and in boils.
Root bark juice is purgative, externally applied to gout and rheumatism.
Decoction of root is beneficial in fever and powder for old wounds and ulcers
(Chatterjee and Pakrashi, 1994). Seeds are acrid and sweetish, tonic,
antidiarrhoeal. Kernel used for abdominal pain in pregnancy and an antidote
to aconite poisoning. It is used as antiemetic, sedative, sodorific and also
cures eye diseases. Leaves astringent and diaphoretic (Kirtikar and Basu,
1933).
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa – Madhur (C.S.Su.27.141), Amla (S.S.Su.46.140).
Guna – Guru (C.S.Su.27.141), Snighdha (S.S.Su.46.140).
Vipaka – Madhur (C.S.Su.27.141), Guru Vipaka (S.S.Su.46.140).
Veerya – Ushna (C.S.Su.27.141; S.S.Su.46.140), Sheeta (A.H.Su.6.120).
Doshaghnata – Vata nashakaa (C.S.Su.27.132), Pittakarakavatnashaka
(S.S.Su.46.140) (B.N., 1982).
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