| Synonym : | Ziziphus glabra Roxb.
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| Bangla Name : | Ban Boroi (Sylhet), Anigola (Dhaka), Bat Boroi (Dinajpur), Anai, Jiba (Marma). |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Rhamnaceae |
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| Disease : | menorrhagia. |
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| Description : | A large straggling shrub, armed with recurved prickles, sometimes climbing, young branches clothed with fulvous tomentum. Leaves elliptic, often rounded from an oblique or cordate base, 5-13 cm long, densely tawny-villous and paler beneath. Flowers small greenish-yellow in cymes, arranged in long axillary or terminal much branched, drooping panicles, often up to 30 cm long. Fruit a drupe, globose or pear-shaped, about 2 cm long. |
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| Distribution : | In the forests of Chittagong, Sylhet, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Dinajpur. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | A new glycoside, zizyphoside along with betulic, oleanolic, alphitolic and 2?-hydroxyursolic acids have been isolated from this plant. Zizyphoside on hydrolysis yields altered aglycone, ebelin lactone (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1993). |
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| Uses : | The flowers with an equal quantity of the petioles of the betel leaf and half as much lime are given in 4 grain pills twice a day for menorrhagia. |
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| Habit : | Shrub |
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