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MT082 : Trema orientalis (L.) Blume

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 476  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Urticales
Family : Ulmaceae - Elm family
Genus : Trema Lour. - trema
Species : Trema orientalis (L.) Blume - Oriental trema
Plant Location in Melghat : Restricted to certain areas like Belkund and others from Chikhaldara Dhakna and Tarubandha ranges Jarida range.Very Sparse  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Ulmaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : K- Thoar, Indian Charcoal Tree, Indian Nettle, Oriental nettle, Pigeon wood, Poison peach • Hindi: Gio, Jivan • Manipuri: Lok uri • Marathi: Ghol, Kapshi, Khargol • Tamil: Yerralai, Nudalei • Malayalam: Ratthi • Telugu: Kakamushti • Kannada: Bende, Gurklu • Bengali: chikan, jiban • Konkani: Khargul • Sanskrit: jivani, jivanti
 
Synonym : Celtis glomerata Hochst.
Celtis guineensis Schumach.
Celtis madagascariensis Bojer.
Celtis orientalis L.
Celtis rigida Bl.
Sponia affinis Planch.
Sponia africana Planch.
Sponia andaresa Comm. ex Lam.
Sponia argentea Planch.
Sponia burmannii (Bl.) Planch.
Sponia commersonii Decne. ex Planch.
Sponia guineensis Planch.
Sponia orientalis (L.) Decne.
Sponia orientalis var. affinis (Planch.) Baker.
Sponia orientalis var. commersonii (Planch.) Baker.
Sponia rigida (Bl.) Decne.
Sponia scaberrima (Bl.) Miq.
Sponia strigosa Planch.
Sponia wightii Planch.
Trema affinis (Planch.) Bl.
Trema africana (Planch.) Bl.
Trema argentea (Planch.) Bl.
Trema burmannii Bl.
Trema commersonii (Planch.) Bl.
Trema grevei Baill.
Trema grisea Baker.
Trema guineense (Schumach. & Thonn.) Ficalho.
Trema nitens Bl.
Trema orientalis var. argentea (BI.) Lauterb.
Trema orientalis var. rigida Lauterb.
Trema rigida Bl.
Trema scaberrima Bl.
Trema sieberi Bl.
Trema strigosa (Planch.) Bl.
Trema wightii (Planch.) Bl.
Description : Dioecious trees, to 15 m high, bark 0.6 cm, thin, greyish or bluish-green, rough, lenticellate; blaze creamy-yellow, streaked; branchlets scabrous to adpressed pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, cauducous; petiole 5-10 mm, slender, tomentose, grooved above; lamina 7.5-15 x 2.5-6 cm, ovate-lanceolate, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, base obliquely cordate, apex acuminate, margin serrulate, scabrid above, tomentose beneath, chartaceous, 3-5-ribbed from base, prominent, lateral nerves 3-4 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, 3-4 mm across, greenish, in axillary fascicles or cymes; male flowers usually sessile; tepals 4 or 5, equal, 2 mm long, curved, ciliate; stamens 5; pistillode oblong; female flowers : tepals unequal, ciliate; ovary superior, sessile, 1-celled, ovate; style bifid, villous; stigma plumose. Fruit a drupe, 4 x 3 mm, globose, black; stylar tip persistent; seed globose.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The plant is vermifuge, and is known to have anti-plasmodium properties. Both bark and leaf decoctions are used as a gargle, inhalation, drink, lotion, bath or vapour bath for coughs, sore throat, asthma, bronchitis, gonorrhea, yellow fever, toothache. The leaves are reported to be a general anti-dote to poisons. A bark infusion is drunk to control dysentery. A tea made from small pieces of the roasted wood is used to treat dysentery.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : simiarenol
simiarenone
trematol
Octacosanoic acid
1-octacosanyl acetate
simiarenone
simiarenol
episimiarenol
trematol
methylswertianin
decussatin
decussatin
sweroside
scopoletin
(-)-epicatechin
lupeol
(-)-ampelopsin F
(-)-epicatechin
(+)-catechin
(+)-syringaresinol
trans-4-hydroxycinnamic acid
hexacosanoic acid
simiarenone
3-O-beta-glucopyranosyl-beta-sitosterol
beta-sitosterol
Reference : ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697

~ Michael Buenor Adinortey, Isaac K. Galyuon and Nicholas Oteng Asamoah; "Trema orientalis Linn. Blume: A potential for propecting for drugs for various uses"; Pharmacogn Rev (2013); 7(13): 67-72 PMID : 23922459

~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151

~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320

~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID :

~ 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 :