MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT051 : Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 194 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Near village | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Myrtaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Jambhul, Jamun, Java plum, Jamun • Hindi: Jamun • Manipuri: Jam • Tamil: Nagai | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Syzygium jambolanum (Lam.) DC. Myrtus cumini L. |
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| Description : | An evergreen tree. Leaves smooth, glossy, elliptic to oblong or ovate. Found through out the state often gregarious in swamp. Cultivated trees have broader leaves. Flowers are greenish white; fruits are berry oblong, black, juicy shining when thouroughly ripe. Bark greyish brown, with large flakes, smooth higher up. Slash aromatic. Leaves with many close parallel veins, crushed leaves smells aromatic, Flowers and fruits produced in bunches on leafless part of branches. Flower blooms during April to May. Fruit ripe during June to July. An evergreen tree reaching up to about 30 m and can live more than 100 years. The Leaves are smooth, glossy, elliptic to oblong or ovate. Flowers are greenish white in colour. The fruits are berry, oblong, black, juicy shining when thoroughly ripe. Fruits have some of the highest levels of natural folic acid and recommended for pregnant women. Powdered seeds consumed to control diabetes. Birds and bats relish on the fruits. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Blood sugar reduces, tonic; Both the seeds and the fruit are diuretic and have important carminative and astringent properties. The seeds also reduce blood sugar levels and are useful in the treatment of diabetes. The seeds and bark are well known in the Far East for the treatment of dysentery and in the control of hyperglycaemia and glycosuria in diabetic patients. The juice of the bark is considered good for treating wounds and enlargement of the spleen. The bark is astringent. An infusion is used to treat irregular menstruation, Diarrhea, dysentery, children's thrush etc. The bark is used as a gargle to strengthen gums, treat mouth ulcers etc. The ripe fruit is astringent and is used as an effective treatment for diabetes. Fruits are used as a relief for colic and to treat Diarrhea. An infusion of the leaves is used in the treatment of diabetes and Diarrhea. The wood yields a sulphate pulp that has medicinal uses. The roots are sometimes used as a treatment for epilepsy. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | ellagic acid isoquercetin kaemferol jambosine antimellin quercetin myricetin 3-O-4-acetyl-L-rhamnopyranoside betulinic acid friedelin epi-friedelanol Beta-sitosterol eugenin bergenin myricetin-3-L-arabinoside quercetin-3-D-galactoside dihydromyricetin oleanolic acid acetyl oleanolic acid eugenol-triterpenoid A eugenol-triterpenoid B isorhamnetin 3-O-rutinoside citric acid mallic acid delphinidin-3-gentiobioside malvidin-3-laminaribioside petunidin-3-gentiobioside cyanidin diglycoside petunidin malvidin alpha-Pinene camphene beta-Pinene myrcene limonene cis-Ocimene trans-Ocimene gamma-terpinene terpinolene bornyl acetate alpha-Copaene beta-Caryophyllene alpha-humulene gamma-Cadinene delta-Cadinene |
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| Reference : | ~ Muniappan Ayyanar and Pandurangan Subash-Babu; "Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels: A review of its phytochemical constituents and traditional uses"; Asian Pac J Trop Biomed (2012); 2(3): 240-246 PMID : 23569906 ~ 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 : ~ Kavishankar, G.B; Lakshmidevi, N.; Murthy, S.M.; Prakash, H.S. and Niranjana, S.R.; "Diabetes and medicinal plants-A review"; Int J Pharm Biomed Sci (2011); 2(3): 65-80 PMID : |
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