Synonym : | - |
Bangla Name : | Sui Mong (Marma.). |
English Name : | - |
Family : | Euphorbiaceae |
Disease : | Post-natal indigestion, irregular menstruation. |
Description : | A woody undershrub to shrub, branches rusty villous. Leaves 15-25 cm long, subsessile, obovate-oblong. Flowers minute, in 10-15 cm long spikes, sometimes subpanicled. Fruit small, ovoid or ellipsoid, subcompressed. |
Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts and Sylhet. |
Chemical Constituents : | - |
Uses : | Roots and leaves with clove, black pepper and fruits of Piper longum are made in to pills, which are given for post-natal indigestion and irregular menstruation by the Marma tribe, the pills are administered thrice daily for two weeks. |
Habit : | Shrub |