Artocarpus LACUCHA Buch-Ham.
| Synonym : | Artocarpus ficifolius W.T.Wang Artocarpus lakoocha Roxb. Artocarpus yunnanensis H.H.Hu SSaccus lakoocha (Roxb.) Kuntze |
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| Bangla Name : | Dewa, Deophal, Dalo, Ban Kathal, Dewa-cham (Sylhet), Barta (Chittagong). ,Mialo (Mogh), Armu (Garo). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Urticaceae |
| Disease : | Constipation, pimples and cracked skin. |
| Description : | A medium-sized, deciduous tree with large dense spreading crown. Leaves 10-30 cm long, coriaceous, oblong, elliptic or subovate, entire. Flowers in axillary globose, shortly pedunculate heads. Fruit 5-7.5 cm across, lobulate, yellow when ripe. |
| Distribution : | Grows wild in the forests of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Cox’s Bazar, Sylhet, Dhaka, Mymensingh and also planted in the villages throughout the country. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Stem bark contains a stilbene, lupeol acetate, ?-amyrin acetate, cycloartenol and related compounds. Root barks contain glycoflavanol, lupeol and ?-sitosterol. Wood contains a polyhydric phenolic compound, tetrahydorxystilbene. Two isolectins have been is |
| Uses : | Seeds are popular as a purge. In case of breast-feeding babies, 3-4 seeds are made into paste and mixed with mother’s milk, and administered to cure constipation. An infusion of the bark is applied for small pimples and cracked skin. The bark finely powde |
| Habit : | Tree |