croton PERSIMILIS Müll.Arg.
| Synonym : | Croton virbalae M.R.Almeida Oxydectes oblongifolia Kuntze Oxydectes persimilis (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze |
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| Bangla Name : | Chuka, Baragachi, Putri, Adagach (Chittagong), Dudhiya (Dinajpur). ,Bol-mangbol chham (Garo |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Euphorbiaceae |
| Disease : | Alterative, purgative, cholagogue, fever, sprains, bruises, rheumatic, hepatitis, diarrhea, dysentery, purgative, spleen trouble, madness, epilepsy, convulsion, scabies, venereal sores, syphilis, ulcers, hydrocele, cholera, neuralgia and pneumonia. |
| Description : | A small to middle-sized, deciduous tree. Leaves 12.5-25 cm long, crowded towards the ends of the branchlets, oblong-lanceolate, subacute. Flowers pale yellowish green, solitary or fasicled in the axils of minute bracts on long, erect, often fascicled racemes. Capsules subglobose, little depressed, slightly 3-lobed, less than 1.3 cm across. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sylhet, in scrubby and deciduous forests. Also found in village shrubberies of Mymensingh and Dinajpur. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Stem bark contains ?-sitosterol, a diterpene alcohol, oblongifoliol, deoxyoblongifoliol and oblongifolic acid. Flavonoids have been isolated from root bark, stem bark, and wood. Two new cembranoids- crotocembraneic acid and neocrotocembraneic acid and a n |
| Uses : | Barks and roots are alterative, purgative and cholagogue, used in reducing chronic enlargement of the liver and in remittent fever. It is externally applied to sprains, bruises and rheumatic swelling and to the hepatic region in chronic hepatitis. Decocti |
| Habit : | Tree |