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Go BackTamarandus indica
| BINOMIAL NAME | Tamarandus indica |
| COMMON NAME | Indian date |
| TAMIL NAME | புளி |
| FAMILY | Caesalpiniaceae |
| HABIT | Evergreen tree |
| MORPHOLOGY | Leaves alternate, compound. Flowers attractive pale yellow or pinkish and small. Fruit a pod, indehiscent, subcylindrical, straight or curved, velvety, rusty-brown; the shell of the pod is brittle |
| MEDICINAL USES | • The bark is given internally as a digestive. • A paste that made from the bark used to relives sores, ulcers, boils and rashes. • It also be administered as a decoction against asthma and amenorrhea and as a febrifuge. • Leaf extracts exhibit anti-oxidant activity in the liver, and are a common ingredient in cardiac and blood sugar reducing medicines. • Young leaves may be used in fomentation for rheumatism, applied to sores and wounds, or administered as a poultice for inflammation of joints to reduce swelling and relieve pain. |
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