Antidesma ROXBURGHII Wall.


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