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| Bangla Name : | Ata, Sharifa, Luna. |
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| English Name : | Custard Apple, Sweetsop. |
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| Family : | Annonaceae |
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| Disease : | Purgative, astringent, diarrhea, tonic, cooling, maturant, laxative and anthelmintic. |
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| Description : | A small evergreen tree with somewhat bushy habit. Leaves 5-7.5 cm long, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic. Flowers solitary, 2.5 cm long, leaf-opposed, on short extra-axillary branchlets. Petals 3, narrow-oblong. Fruits globose, 5-10 cm diam. fleshy, surface tuberculate |
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| Distribution : | Planted throughout the country. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves and tender stem contain the alkaloids, anonaine, roemerine, norcorydine, corydine, norlaureline, isocorydine, norisocorydine, glaucine xylopine and lanuginosine. They also contain friedelin, alkaloids, (-)-xylopine (+)-methoxyarmepavine and lanugin |
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| Uses : | : The root is considered as a drastic purgative. The bark is astringent, used in diarrhoea. An infusion of the leaves is considered efficacious in prolapsus ani of children, and the bruised leaves with salt make a cataplasm to induce suppuration. Ripe fru |
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| Habit : | Tree |
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