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Feronia limonida  (Linn.) Swingle

   

Botanical Name

:

Feronia limonida (Linn.) Swingle

English Name

:

Wood Apple

Synonym(s)

:

Feronia elephantum Correa , Limonia acidissima L.., Schinus limonia L.

Family

:

Rutaceae

 

General Info

Description

A small deciduous tree with short, erect, cylindrical stem, 30-40 ft. high and 2-4 ft. in girth, bearing thorny branches; leaves pinnate, 3-4 in. long, with small ovate or obovate leaflets; flowers polygamous in lax paniclels; fruit large, globose or oblate, 1.0-2.5 inches in diam. with hard, rough, woody pericarp; seeds numerous, small, compressed, embedded in a sweetish aromatic edible pulp.

Herb Effects

Pulp of raw fruit is useful in arresting secretion or bleeding, ripe fruit is refreshing, aromatic, digestive and a tonic, leaves are aromatic, astringent, carminative, gum of the stem has a soothing effect on the skin and mucous membranes.

Links

Wood-apple
AgroForestryTree Database
PIER

Chemistry

Active Ingredients

An essential oil rich in oxalic, malic citric acid and a concentrated tannic acid (leaves); coumarins, monoterpenoidfuranocoumarin lactone (fernolin); aurapten, marmesin, bergapten and xanthotoxin (root).

Chemistry of Active Ingredients
Product Categories

Name

CAS#

IUPAC Name

Formula

Structure

Product Categories
Oxalic acid 553-91-3 Oxalic acid C2H2O4 Click Here To Enlarge
Malic acid Not Available 2-hydroxybutanedioic
acid
C4H6O5 Click Here To Enlarge
Citric acid Not Available 2-hydroxypropane-1,2
,3-tricarboxylic
acid
C6H8O7 Click Here To Enlarge
Tannic acid 1401-55-4 Not Available Not Available Click Here To Enlarge
Coumarins 81-81-2 2-hydroxy-3-(3-oxo-1
-phenyl-butyl)-chrom
en-4-one
C19H16O4 Click Here To Enlarge
Aurapten 495-02-3 7-(3,7-dimethylocta-
2,6-dienoxy)chromen-
2-one
C19H22O3 Click Here To Enlarge
Marmesin 13849-08-6 Not Available C14H14O4 Click Here To Enlarge
Bergapten 484-20-8 Not Available C12H8O4 Click Here To Enlarge
Xanthotoxin 298-81-7 Not Available C12H8O4 Click Here To Enlarge

Pharmacology

Medicinal Use

Digestive disorders; dysentery, diarrhea and piles, women's disorders; sagging breasts, cancer of the breast and uterus, sterility due to deficiency of progesterone, post-partum complications, children's diseases; bowel complaints, urtecaria and biliousness.

Reference

Sharma PV. Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.

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