Family: Clusiaceae
English: Beauty leaf plant
Sanskrit: Punnaga, Purusha, Raktavriksha
Hindi: Sultan Chamba- सुलतान चम्पा
Malayalam: Cherupunna-ചെറു പുന്ന, Sundari Ela, Punnagam
Tamil: புன்னை punnai
Alexandrian laurel – Calophyllum inophyllum is a slow-growing, evergreen tree that grows up to 20 meters in height. commonly found in beach areas and backwater banks of Kerala. The leaves are glossy green, attractive, and elliptical, making a dense canopy. The flower is 25 mm wide, fragrant, and occurs in racemose up to 15 flowers.
The fruits are round, green drupes grow up to 4 cm in diameter and contain a large seed. When it is ripe, the color changes from yellow to brownish-red. The seeds yield an oil called tamanu or Bombay oil which is dark green, and used to grease hair
Leaf Arrangement
Shape-Ovate | Margin-Entire | Venation-pinnate |
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Bark, leaves, seeds
The bark is useful in skin diseases, strangury, and internal hemorrhages, The leaves are useful in migraine, vertigo, and ophthalmia. The seed oil is useful in intramuscular pain, leprosy, skin diseases, and scabies. Oil is used to reduce headaches, the resin is used to heal wounds and dysentery, to treat cataracts, to treat rheumatoid arthritis, and to cure Vata disorders.
Chemical content:
Seed yields fixed oil, the kernel of seed yields 45-50% of oil with a bitter taste, and other constituents are Tannin, kalofiloid, kalofilic acid, and Enophilic Acid.
Medicinal Properties:
Bark is astringent, anodyne, vulnerary, diuretic, anti-dermatic, emollient and purgative. The seed oil is anodyne, diuretic and demulcent
How to prepare medicines:
1. Application of oil can reduce Rheumatic arthritic pain.
2. Leaf juice is used to treat cataracts.
3. Bark resin is used to treat wounds.
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