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Lasora

Description: Cordia_africana2   Description: c latifolia

BOTANICAL NAME:

  • Cordia latifolia Roxb

FAMILY:

  • Boraginaceae
  • Cordiaceae

SYNONYM(S):

  • Cordia dichotoma Forst
  • Cordia oblique Wild
  • Cordia myxa Roxb.

URDU NAME:

  • Lasora

REGIONAL NAME:                   

  • Bengali: Bahubara, Bohari, Buhal, Chhotobohnari
  • Persian: Sapistan, Suspistan
  • Hindi: Bhairala, Bhokar, Chhotalasora, Gondi, Lasora
  • Pashto: Lasora
  • Sanskrit: Bahuvara, hlesh-Malaka, Selu
  • Sindhi: Giduri, Lesuri
  • Arabic: Dabak, Dabk
  • Punjabi: Laswara

UNANI/TIBBI NAME:

  • Sapistan, Dabak, Babak

ENGLISH NAME:

  • Sebes tan Plum

HABITAT:

  • Mirpur, Billawar

DESCRIPTION:

  • A small to medium sized tree with glabrous branchlets
  • Leaves glabrous, entire or dentate are elliptic lanceolate to broadly ovate
  • Flowers are small, white in colour in glabrous cymes
  • Fruit 1-2 cm long shining, yellowish brown, pink or nearly black when ripe
  • Seed one

PART USED:

  • Fruit

TASTE:

  • Sweet

TEMPERAMENT:

  • Moderate 1°

PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE:

  • Flowers appear between January to April and the fruits from May to July.

PROCEDURE & TIME OF COLLECTION:

  • The fruits are picked and dried when fairly ripe.

CONSTITUENTS:

  • Pulp-Sugar
  • Mucilage Bark- Cathartin

SUBSTITUTES:

  • Khatmi/Marshmallow (Al thaea officinalis Linn.)

ACTIONS AND USES IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:

Pharmacological action:

  • Anthelmintic
  • Purgative
  • Demulcent
  • Expectorant
  • Pectoral
  • Diuretic
  • Astringent

Therapeutic uses:

  • Biliousness,
  • Chronic fever
  • Diseases of the chest, urinary tract, spleen
  • For joint pain
  • Is also useful in bronchitis
  • Pneumonia and
  • Phthisis

DOSES:

  • 9-15 g

CORRECTIVES:

  • Unnab/Jujube (Zizyphus vulgarus Linn.)
  • Gul-e-Surkh/Rose (Rosa darmascene Mill)

IMPORTANT UNANI FORMULATIONS:

  • Laooq-e-Sapi stan
  • Laooq-e-Sapistan  khiyar Shambri
  • Sufuf Habis
  • Dayaquza