Euphorbia TIRUCALLI L.
| Synonym : | Euphorbia laro Drake Euphorbia scoparia N.E.Br. Tirucalia indica Raf. Tirucalia tirucalli (L.) P.V.Heath |
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| Bangla Name : | Lanka Sij, Latadaona, Jalasij. |
| English Name : | Milk Bush, Milk Hedge, Indian Tree Spurge. |
| Family : | Euphorbiaceae |
| Disease : | Purgative, carminative, gonorrhoea, cough, asthma, dropsy, leprosy, enlarged spleen, dyspepsia, jaundice, colic, tumours, stone in the bladder, vesicant, rubefacient, warts, rheumatism, neuralgia, toothache, purgative, irritant and emetic. |
| Description : | A much branched small tree with cylindric, green, whorled or fascicled branchlets and white latex. Small linear-oblong leaves appear in the rainy season, 6-13 mm long. Involucres clustered in the forks of the branchlets, shortly pedicelled, mostly female, campanulate. |
| Distribution : | Cultivated in gardens. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Latex contains a number of diterpenes, macrocyclic diterpenes, tirucalline and ingol esters and triterpenes, euphorbin, cycloeuphordenol and cycloeuphornol. Stems contain resin, gum, hentriacontane, hentriacontanol, taraxerone, tirucallol, ?-sitosterol, e |
| Uses : | Juice of the stem is purgative and carminative, useful in gonorrhoea, whooping cough, asthma, dropsy, leprosy, enlarged spleen, dyspepsia, jaundice, colic, tumours and stone in the bladder. The latex is vesicant and rubefacient, used as an application to |
| Habit : | Tree |