A shrub or small tree usually 2 or 3 meters tall, but sometimes grows up to 10 meters. The plant has adapted for absorption and support by forming extensive lateral roots that are white, stiff, and covered with a corky bark. The tree produces small white, cream, or greenish flowers, which smell like a mixture of honey and urine, crowded on short stalks on the leaf axils. After flowering it produces small fruits, 3-4 mm in diameter, which split open to reveal three brown seeds covered with a red-to-orange aril.

Antiseptic, antiviral, anticancerous, antitumorous, antiulcerous, antivenin, anti-inflammatory (plant)

Chemistry

Active Ingredients

Lapachol, clerodane diterpenes, caprionic acid, casearia clerodane I thru VI, casearvestrin A thru C, hesperitin, lapachol, and vicenin.

Chemistry of Active Ingredients

Name CAS# IUPAC Name Formula Structure Lapachol Not Available 4-hydroxy-3-(3-methy lbut-2-enyl)naphthal ene-1,2-dione C15H14O3 Hesperitin Not Available 5,7-dihydroxy-2-(3-h ydroxy-4-methoxy-phe nyl)chroman-4-one C16H14O6

Pharmacology

Medicinal Use

For diarrhea, chest colds and flu (bark); to treat wounds and leprosy (roots or seeds);for skin diseases, to treat rheumatism, syphilis, herpes, stomach and skin ulcers, edema, fevers of all kinds, diarrhea, a topical pain-reliever and as an anti-ulcer drug (plant)

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