Acacia concinna (WILLD.) DC.
| Synonym : | Acacia rugata (Lam.) Mer. Acacia rugata (Lam.) Voigt Acacia rugata (Lam.) Merr. Guilandin |
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| Bangla Name : | Banritha. ,Tai Ann Khur (Baum), Kan por (Marma). |
| English Name : | |
| Family : | Mimosaceae |
| Disease : | Diarrhoea,constipation, prurigo, abscesses, eczema and bubos. |
| Description : | A large stragling shrub with more or less hooked prickles. Leaves 2-pinnate, pinnae 12-16, leaflets 30-50, membranous, 1-1.25 cm long, flowers in globose yellow heads, 1-1.25 cm across, arranged in panicle. Pods strap-shaped, straight, 7.6-10 cm long, thick and fleshy. |
| Distribution : | In evergreen forests of Sylhet. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contains tartaric, oxalic, succinic acids along with alkaloids – calycotomine and nicotine. Saponin isolated from seeds was a mixture of acacinin A, acacinin B and concinnin. Acacinins C, D and E, sucrose, raffinose, stachyose and verbascose have b |
| Uses : | Pod is purgative, anthelmintic, anti-diarrhoeal, emetic and diuretic, improves appetite, used in constipation, troubles of kidneys and the bladder, externally they are applied to leprous patches, prurigo, abscesses, eczema and bubos. The seeds are said to |
| Habit : | Shrub |