|
Botanical Name: Mimusops Elengi
Sanskrit Name: Vakula
English Name:
Bullet-wood tree
Family:
Sapotaceae
Plant Part Used:
Bark, Flowers, Fruits And Seeds.
Description of Mimusops Elengi:
A moderate sized evergreen tree grows up to 15 meters in height. Leaves
simple, opposite, oblong, acute or acuminate, glabrous, leathery and
wavy margins; flowers gray colored, very fragrant, found as solitary in
leaf axils. Fruits ovoid berries, containing 1-2 seeds per fruit.
|
|
|
Medicinal Uses:
The bark, flowers,
fruits and seeds are astringent, cooling, anthelmintic, tonic, and
febrifuge. It is mainly used in dental ailments like bleeding gums,
pyorrhea, dental caries and loose teeth.
Extract of flowers used against heart diseases, leucorrhoea, menorrhagia
and act as antiduretic in polyuria and antitoxin. The snuff made from
the dried and powdered flowers used in a disease called Ahwa in which
strong fever, headache and pain in the neck, shoulders and other parts
of the body occurs.
Ripened fruits facilates in burning urination. The ripe fruit pounded
and mixed with water is given to promote delivery in childbirth. Powder
of dried flowers is a brain tonic and useful as a snuff to relieve
cephalalgia.
Decoction of bark is used to wash the wounds.
Herbal Extract packing:
|
