Ficus RACEMOSA L.
| Synonym : | Covellia glomerata (Roxb.) Miq. Ficus chittagonga Miq. Ficus glomerata Roxb. Ficus lucescens Blume |
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| Bangla Name : | Jagadumur, Gulangdumur, Yajnadumbar. , Jabuna, Sapai (Mogh), Zoigga dumur (Chakma), Sanak (Marma). |
| English Name : | Fig. |
| Family : | Moraceae |
| Disease : | Astringent, stomachic, carminative, menorrhagia, haemoptysis, bronchitis, dry cough, kidney disease, spleen, bowels, tonic, styptic, allays thirst, leucorrhoea, acrid, cooling, biliousness, fatigue, urinary discharges, thirst, leprosy, menorrhagia, pain, |
| Description : | A medium-sized to large deciduous, sometimes evergreen tree with spreading crown and white latex. Leaves 7.5-15 cm long, ovate-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, entire, tapering to a bluntish point at the apex. Receptacles shortly pedunculate, on short leafless warted branches which issue from the stem and larger branches, subglobose, pyriform or subturbinate, 3.2 cm across, red when ripe. |
| Distribution : | Throughout Bangladesh, near streams and canals. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain glycosides, gluanol acetate, ?-amyrin and ?-sitosterol. Bark contains ceryl behanate, lupeol, lupeol acetate, ? & ?- amyrin, gluanol acetate, ?-sitosterol, stigmasterol and a ketone. Gluanol acetate and ?-sitosterol have also been isolatate |
| Uses : | The fruits are considered astringent, stomachic and carminative, given in menorrhagia, haemoptysis, bronchitis, dry cough, diseases of kidney and spleen. The unripe fruit is astringent to the bowels, tonic and styptic, allays thirst, useful in leucorrhoea |
| Habit : | Tree |