Trema ORIENTALIS (L.) Bl.
| Synonym : | Celtis madagascariensis Bojer Celtis orientalis L. Sponia orientalis (L.) Decne. Trema africana Blume Trema amboinensis Auct non Bl. |
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| Bangla Name : | Chikan, Jibon, Dholaguiya, Gunali (Sylhet), Jigni shuktani, Bonpotashi (Rangpur), Shimutta, Sakka sala (Chakma), Sai Saw Apang (Marma), Phakram (Garo). |
| English Name : | Charcoal Tree, Indian Nettle Tree. |
| Family : | Ulmaceae |
| Disease : | Diarrhoea,epilepsy,muscular pains,fever with vomoting |
| Description : | A fast-growing evergreen tree, 7.5-9 m high, with straight, ascending branches. Leaves alternate, distichous, drooping, ovate-lanceolate, 5-15 cm long with oblique cordate base, much toothed, lower surface rough, silvery white. Flowers greenish, minute in axillary cymes. Fruit an ovoid or subglobose drupe, about 3 mm long. |
| Distribution : | In forests and village groves all over the country. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Octacosanoic acid, 1-octacosanyl acetate, simiarenone, simiarenol, episimiarenol and a new triterpene alcohol, trematol have been isolated from stem bark (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1993). |
| Uses : | A decoction of the root is used for the treatment of diarrhoea and the blood in the urine. The root, bark and leaves are used in epilepsy. The stem bark is used as a poultice for muscular pains. It is also used for fever with vomoting in Khagrachari. |
| Habit : | Tree |