Barringtonia ACUTANGULA (L.) Gaertn.
| Synonym : | Barringtonia acutangula subsp. Acutangula Barringtonia bicolor Craib Caryophyllus acutangulus (L.) Stokes Stravadium acutangulum (L.) Miers. Symplocos multiflora Eberh. & Dubard |
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| Bangla Name : | Hijal, Kumia. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Barringtoniaceae |
| Disease : | Diarrhoea, dysentery, cooling, aperients, expectorant, stimulating, emetic, lactagogue, vulnerary, anthelmintic, biliousness, bronchitis, sore eyes, gleet, lumber pain, nasal catarrh ,hallucinations, carminative, emetic, pain, gonorrhea, blenorrhagia and |
| Description : | A small to medium evergreen tree, with spreading crown. Leaves about 12.5 cm long, cuneate-elliptic, minutely denticulate-crenate. Flowers small, fragrant, dark scarlet, in slender pendulous many-flowered racemes, up to 30 cm long. Fruit 2.5-3.7 cm long, bluntly quadrangular, broadest in the middle. |
| Distribution : | Occur in the fresh water swamp forests of Sylhet (“Haor”). Also occur along the canels and roadside ditches throughout the country. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain a trihydroxy triterpene monocarboxylic acid, acutangulic acid, and other organic acids, barrigtogenic, tangulic and oleanolic acids, saponins and sapogenins, acutagenol A and acutagenol B, three triterpenoid sapogenols, barringtogenols, B, |
| Uses : | Juice of the leaves is given in diarrhoea and dysentery. Roots are cooling, aperient and expectorant, stimulating and emetic, supposed to be similar to Chincona in its properties. The fruit is astringent to the bowels, lactagogue, vulnerary, anthelmintic, |
| Habit : | Tree |