| Synonym : | Vangueria spinosa Roxb.
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| Bangla Name : | Maina, Moyena. |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Rubiaceae |
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| Disease : | Refrigerant, cholagogue, ,phlegm ,bile, hepatic congestion, bone fracture anddiphtheria. |
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| Description : | A small tree or large shrub with straight, opposite, sharp spines. Leaves 5-12.5 cm long, elliptic-oblong, acuminate. Flowers small, greenish white, in peduncled cymes from the old scars below the leaves, fruit about 2.5 cm diam., globose, yellowish when ripe.
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| Distribution : | North Bengal, different Sal forests, Cox’s Bazar, Sundarbans. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Fruits contain sugar, gum and tannic acid, but no alkaloid or glycoside. Seeds yield fatty oil composed of esters of palmitic, stearic, oleic and linoleic acids (Ghani, 2003).
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| Uses : | Fruits are considered refrigerant, cholagogue, strengthening and an expellant of phlegm and bile, decoction is used in biliary complaints with hepatic congestion. Leaves are used for the treatment of bone fracture, the powdered leaves are useful for dipht |
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| Habit : | Small tree |
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