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Botanical Name |
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Salvadora persica Linn. |
English
Name |
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Mustard Tree, Saltbush, Tooth-brush Tree |
Family |
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Salvadoraceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A large, much-branched, evergreen shrub or a tree. Bark dull grey or grey-white, deeply cracked; leaves variable in shape, elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, somewhat fleshy; flowers pedicellate, greenish white or greenish yellow in lax panicles; drupes globose or round, smooth red when ripe. |
| Herb Effects |
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Antiviral (root); as a tonic and stimulant in low fevers and as an emmenagogue (bark); ascarifuge (stem bark); antiscorbutic and astringent (leaves); deobstruent, carminative, diuretic, lithontriptic, and stomachic (fruits); purgative, diuretic and tonic (seed) |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Benzyl isothiocyanate (root); trim ethyl amine, salvadorine, vitamin C (stem bark) |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Benzyl isothiocyanate |
622-78-6 |
isothiocyanatomethyl
benzene |
C8H7NS |
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| Vitamin C |
89924-69-6 |
2-(1,2-dihydroxyethy
l)-4,5-dihydroxy-fur
an-3-one |
C6H8O6 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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Against gonorrhoea and vesical catarrh (root bark); to relieve the pain due to spleen troubles (root); for gastric troubles especially in gastric ulcers (stem bark); in asthma and cough, in rheumatism, a poultice made out of them is applied to painful tumours and piles (leaves); in biliousness and rheumatism (fruits). |
| Reference |
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 Sharma PV. Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.
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