English: Eucalyptus
Sanskrit: Thaila parna, suganda patra
Malayalam: Yukkali
Tamil: Yukaly
It is an evergreen tree, that grows to 40–70 meters tall, straight, trunk up to 2 m in diameter, with large branches, crowning and camphoraceous foliage. Bark smooth, gray, brown, and peeling in long strips, rough and shaggy, and thick. Leaves are arranged alternately, drooping on flattened yellowish petioles 1.5 to 4 cm long, narrowly lanceolate, up to 30 cm long and 2.5 to 5 cm wide, mostly curved, apex acuminate, acute at base, margin entire, glabrous, thick, leathery, and shiny dark green. Flowers are single, found at the leaf base, 5 cm across, and numerous, white stamens 12 mm long. Seeds are many many, irregularly elliptical, up to 3 mm long, and dull black in color. The root system deep length of up to 30 meters and spreads.
Leaf Arrangement
| Shape-Tapered | Margin-Entire | Venation-Reticulate |
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Useful plant parts:
Dried leaves, gum, oil
Medicinal uses:
Used in the treatments of abscess, dysentery, dyspepsia, aryngitis, leprosy, arthritis, bronchitis, burns, asthma, boils, flu, grippe, cold, cough, croup, cystitia, cancer, rhinitis, sores, catarrh, diabetes, diptheria, fever, inflammation, malaria, miasma, phthisis, sorethroat, spasms, tuberculosis, twounds, umors, vaginitis and worms infestations
Chemical content:
Quercetol, quercitrine, rutin, quercetol, hyperoside and glaucoside.eucalyptol-cineol,terpineol, aliphatic aldehydes, isoamyl alcohol, ethanol, sesquiterpene alcohols, terpenes,Tannin, catechin and citriodorol
Medicinal Properties:
Anodyne, antiphlogistic, antiperiodic, antiseptic, astringent, febrifuge, hemostat, inhalant, rubefacient, sedative, stimulant, suppurative, vermifuge, deodorant, diaphoretic, expectorant and insect repellant
One of the ingredients to prepare the Ayurvedic medicines like-
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