MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT020 : Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 81 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Village sites | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Rahamnaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bor, Ber, K-Boray, G-Renga, Indian jujube, Indian plum • Hindi: Ber • Sanskrit: Badri • Tamil: Elandhai • Manipuri: Boroi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Paliurus mairei H. Lév. Rhamnus jujuba L. Ziziphus jujuba (L.) Gaertn. Ziziphus mairei (H. Lév.) K. Browicz & Lauener. Ziziphus mauritiana var. muratiana (Maire) A. Chev. Ziziphus mauritiana var. orthacantha (DC.) A. Chev. Ziziphus muratiana Maire. Ziziphus orthacantha DC. Ziziphus rotunda DC. |
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| Description : | Trees, to 10 m high; bark dark grey or nearly black, with deep vertical cracks, reddish and fibrous inside; branchlets, petiole and underside of leaves white buff, tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipular spines solitary or in pairs, straight or one of them recurved; nodes slightly enlarged around the leaf scars; petiole 4-8 mm, stout; lamina 1.5-4 x 1.5-3 cm, ovate, elliptic-ovate, elliptic-orbicular or suborbicular, base oblique, subcordate or round, apex round and retuse, margin glandular-denticulate or serrate, glabrous above, coriaceous, strongly 3-ribbed from base, convergent; lateral nerves 2-3 pairs, pinnate, prominent, slender, intercostae obscure. Flowers bisexual, 5 mm across, greenish-yellow, in 15-20 flowered dense cymose axillary fascicles; peduncle much reduced; calyx tube 0.5 mm, woolly outside, glabrous within; lobes 5, triangular, prominently keeled on inner face; petals 5, cucullate, round at apex, deflexed with the stamens; disc 10-lobed, grooved; stamens 5, enclosed in the petals, not exserted beyond them; filaments slightly dilated at base; ovary embedded in disc, 2-celled; ovule 1, ascending; styles 2, connate to the middle; stigma 2-fid. Fruit a drupe 1 x 0.5 cm, oblong-globose, yellow or orange when ripe; 1-2-celled; seeds 1 or 2, compressed. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Fruit aids weight gain, improves muscular strength and increases stamina. They are anodyne, anti-cancer, anti-dote, expectorant, pectoral, refrigerant, sedative, stomachic, styptic and tonic. They are considered to purify the blood and aid digestion, and are used internally in the treatment of a range of conditions including chronic fatigue, loss of appetite, Diarrhea, pharyngitis, bronchitis, anaemia, irritability and hysteria. A mucilage made from the fruit is used to make bronchial pastilles. It is hypnotic, narcotic, sedative, stomachic and tonic, and is used internally in the treatment of palpitations, insomnia, nervous exhaustion, night sweats and excessive perspiration. The root is used in the treatment of dyspepsia. A decoction of the root has been used in the treatment of fevers. The root is made into a powder and applied to old wounds and ulcers. The leaves are astringent and febrifuge. They are said to promote the growth of hair. They are used to form a plaster in the treatment of strangury. The plant is a folk remedy for anaemia, hypertonia, nephritis and nervous diseases. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | betulinic acid ceanothic acid frangufoline spinosin beta-sitosterol daucosterol daucosterol-6-octadecanoate sucrose docosanoic acid stearic acid palmitoleic acid protopine berberine quercetin kaempferol sitosterol stigmasterol lanosterol diosgenin alphitolic acid maslinic acid oleanolic acid ursolic acid 3-O-trans-alphitolic, 3-O-cis-p-alphitolic 3-O-cis-p-coumaroylalphitolic 3-O-trans-pcoumarylalphitolicacids zizyphus saponins I zizyphus saponins II zizyphus saponins III jujuboside B spinosin swertisin |
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| Reference : | ~ Boeing H, Bechthold A, Bub A, Ellinger S, Haller D, Kroke A, Leschik-Bonnet E, Muller MJ, Oberritter H, Schulze M, Stehle P and Watzl B; "Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases"; Eur J Nutr (2012); 51(6): 637-63 PMID : 22684631 ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Omesh Bajpai, Jitendra Pandey and Lal Babu Chaudhary; "Ethnomedicinal Uses of Tree Species by Tharu Tribes in the Himalayan Terai Region of India"; Research Journal of Medicinal Plant (2016); 10(1): 19-41 PMID : |
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