English: Creeping fig, Hairy Fig, Devil fig, Opposite-leaved fig tree.
Sanskrit: Malayu, Kakodumbarika
Hindi: Gobla
Malayalam: Thondi, Erumanakku- എരുമനാക്ക്, Parakam, Kattatti Parothu- പറോത്ത്.
Hairy Fig is a hairy shrub or small tree, leaves are 1 to 4 cm long and 5 to 10 cm wide, thickly covered with hairs. Figs fruits appear in the leaf’s axis or in the stem itself as solitary or paired, fruits are yellow or red when mature, size 1.2 to 3 cm in diameter.
Useful plant parts:
Root, seed, bark.
Leaf Arrangement
Shape-Lanceolate | Margin-Entire | Venation-Reticulated |
Medicinal uses:
Easy removal of the placenta in cows, to treat anemia, hemorrhoids, ulcer, leucoderma, inflammations, intermittent fever, psoriasis, jaundice, epistaxis, and vitiated conditions of Pita.
How to prepare medicines:
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