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Butea Gum Tree |
BOTANICAL NAME:
FAMILY:
SYNONYM(S):
- Butea frondosa Koenig ex roxb
URDU NAME:
REGIONAL NAME:
- Bengali: Palas
- Punjabi: Chichra
- Persian: Palah
- Hindi: Tesu, Dhak, Palas.
- Pashto: Kammarkas
- Sanskrit: Palasha
- Sindhi: Khalas Papari
UNANI/TIBBI NAME:
- Palas, Dhak, Tesu, Chenia Gond
ENGLISH NAME:
- The flame of the forest
- Butea gum tree (the gum is known as Bengal kino or Butea kino)
HABITAT:
- Jehlum (Punjab), N.W.F.P.
DESCRIPTION:
- A deciduous Tree with the crooked gnarled trunk, 3-5m in height,
- Bark bluish-grey to light brown
- Leaves 3 foliate; leaflet leathery, hairy on the underside, terminal ones broad obviate whereas the lateral smaller obliquely obviate.
- Flower bright orange- red , large and in dense racemes
- Stalk dark brown velvety
- Calyx velvety jet black in colour
- Pendulous pod containing a single seed
PART USED:
- Gums, seeds, leaves and flowers
TASTE:
TEMPERAMENT:
PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE:
- Flowers and fruit occurs on tree during March- May
PROCEDURE & TIME OF COLLECTION:
- The bark of tree yields a red juice which exudes from natural or artificial Scares, this harens into a ruby red vitreous gum, which is collected.
CONSTITUENTS:
- Tannins
- Gallic acid
- Mucilaginous matter
- Pyrocatechin
SUBSTITUTES:
- Gond kikar/gum acacia (gum arabica wild.)
ACTIONS AND USES IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:
Pharmacological action:
- Gum: Astringent, Viscostic , Avaricious, Desiccative, Tonic
- Seed: Anthelmin
- Leaves: Astringent
- Flowers: Astringent, Diuretic, Depurative, Aphrodisiac
Therapeutic uses:
- Gum is useful in chronic diarrhea, back aches, piles, and tonic for liver, lungs and chest diseases, syphilis.
DOSES:
CORRECTIVES:
- Katira/tragacanth (Sterculia Urens Linn )
- Gulab/rose (Rosa damascene mill)
- Sandal/sandalwood (san tal urn album linn)
IMPORTANT UNANI FORMULATIONS:
- Hab-e-deedan
- Sufuf silane raham
ASTROLOGY:
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