MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT120 : Mesua ferrea L. |
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| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | CALOPHYLLACEAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Cobra saffron, Ceylon ironwood, Indian rose chestnut • Hindi: Nag champa, Nagkesar • Urdu: Narmishka • Tamil: Tadinangu • Marathi: Thorlachampa • Malayalam: Vainavu • Assamese: Nokte • Manipuri: Nageshor | |||||||||||||
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| Description : | the very hard timber was used for making lances. It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree up to 13 m tall, often buttressed at the base with a trunk up to 90 cm in diameter. It has simple, narrow, oblong, dark green leaves 7-15 cm long, with a whitish underside; the emerging young leaves are red to yellowish pink and drooping. The flowers are 4-7.5 cm diameter, with four white petals and a centre of numerous yellow stamens. The flowers have many uses - they are used to make an incense and also used to stuff pillows in some countries. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | A mixture of pounded kernels and seed oil is used for poulticing wounds. The seed-oil is used for treating itch, scabies and other skin eruptions, dandruff and rheumatism. The fruit is alterative and stimulant. A paste of the fruit is applied to boils. The flowers are astringent and stomachic. A paste made from the flowers is used in the treatment of amoebic dysentery. A decoction of the flowers is drunk by women after childbirth. It is used as a haemostatic, antidysenteric and antiDiarrheal. The leaves are applied to the head in the form of a poultice for severe colds. Oil from the seeds is used for sores, scabies, wounds, and rheumatism. The root of this herb is often used as an anti-dote for snake poison. The dried flowers are used for bleeding hemorrhoids and dysentery with mucus. Fresh flowers are also prescribed for excessive thirst, excessive perspiration, cough, and for indigestion. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | beta-amyrine alpha-amyrin beta-amyrin Betulic acid Ferruol A Leukoefdin Mammeigin Mammeisin mesuaferrol Mesuaferrone A Mesuaferrone B Mesuagin Mesuanic acid Mesuaxanthone A Mesuaxanthone B Mesuol |
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| Reference : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID : ~ Anupama Thapliyal, Roop Krishen Khar, Amrish Chandra; "Overview of Cancer and Medicinal Herbs used for Cancer Therapy"; Asian Journal of Pharmaceutics (2018); 12(1): S1-8 PMID : |
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