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| Bangla Name : | : Chhatim, Chhaitan, Khami, Satni, Chhatni (Sylhet). ,Sesna (Chakma), Chaile (Mogh), Sakehan, Sokchuan, Bor-chhak-chhan (Garo), Chong Laong, Chai Lang (Marma), Chenchana Gaith (Tanchangya). |
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| English Name : | Devil’s tree, Dita bark tree. |
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| Family : | Apocynaceae |
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| Disease : | Astringent, tonic, anthemintic, laxative, febrifuge, alterative,antiperiodic, chronic diarrhoea ,dysentery, fever, skin diseases,malaria, ulcers and cancer. |
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| Description : | A medium-sized, sometimes very tall, evergreen trees with copious white latex, branches whorled. Leaves 10-20 cm long, coriacious, oblong-lanceolate, whorled. Flowers small, greenish white, in many flowered capitate cymes. Fruits 30-60 cm long, narrow, cylindrical follicles, pendulous in clusters. |
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| Distribution : | All over Bangladesh in forest and village thickets. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Principal constituents of leaf, barks of stems and roots are indole alkaloids, picrinine, nareline, akuammicine, scholarine, strictamine, tetrahydroalastonine, detamine, echitenine, echitamine, ditamine, echitamidine, stigmasterol, ?-sitosterol, campester |
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| Uses : | The bark is astringent, tonic, anthemintic, laxative, febrifuge, alterative and antiperiodic. It is a valuable remedy in chronic diarrhoea and the advanced stages of dysentery, also useful in catarrhal fever, skin diseases and malaria. The milky juice is |
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| Habit : | Small tree |
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