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| Bangla Name : | Chhotokamini, Girinim, Gandhal, Barasunga, Babsanga, Kariaphuli, Pahari Nim, Bhatraj. |
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| English Name : | Curry-leaf Tree. |
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| Family : | Rutaceae |
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| Disease : | Tonic, stomachic, dysentery, bruises, eruptions, stimulants and pain. |
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| Description : | A strong smelling, shrub or small tree. Leaves pinnately compound, often 30 cm long, leaflets 2.6-4 cm long, variable, usually obliquely ovate, obtusely acuminate, crenulate. Flowers small, white in much-branched, many-flowered, terminal corymbs. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, 9 mm diam., black, rugose. |
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| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts and Sal forests. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain an essential oil, tannins, resin, glucoside, koenigin, koenigicine, koemine, koenigine, koenidine, koenimbine, cyclomahanimbine, mahanine, mahanimbidine and scopolin. Fruits and seeds contain the carbazole alkaloids, mahanimbine, murrayazol |
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| Uses : | The plant possesses tonic and stomachic properties. Green leaves are eaten raw to cure dysentery, bruished leaves are applied externally to cure bruises, and eruptions. An infusion of the toasted leaves is used to stop vomiting. The leaves are given in de |
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| Habit : | Shrub |
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