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Common Plum

 

BOTANICAL NAME:

  • Prunus domestica

FAMILY:

  • Rosaceae

SYNONYM(S):

  • Prunus bokaniensis
  • Prunus insititia

URDU NAME:

  • Alubukhara

REGIONAL NAME:                   

  • Bengali: Alubukhara
  • Persian: Kishniz
  • Hindi: Alubukhara
  • Pashto: Aloobukhana
  • Sanskrit: Bhalluka
  • Arabic: Ajjas

UNANI/TIBBI NAME:

  • Alu Bukhara

ENGLISH NAME:

  • Common Plum

HABITAT:

  • Commonly cultivated in the Northern Areas, Punjab and Baluchistan

DESCRIPTION:

  • A small sized tree, young shoots pubescent.
  • Ovate or ovate-lanceolate, serrate leaves.
  • Clusters of aromatics flowers.
  • Fruit globose or oblong, golden yellow to red to dark purple in colour.

PART USED:

  • Fruit

TASTE:

  • Sweet and sour

TEMPERAMENT:

  • Cold 1°, moist 2°

PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE:

  • The tree bear fruit when 3-4 year old

PROCEDURE & TIME OF COLLECTION:

Fruit is ready for harvesting from July and august. Fruit are picked while still firm but mature enough to have developed a good colour

CONSTITUENTS:

  • Protein
  • Fat
  • Fiber
  • Sugar
  • Carotene
  • Nicotinic acid
  • Ascorbic acid
  • Carbohydrate
  • Calcium
  • Phosphorous
  • Iron
  • Potassium
  • Copper

SUBSTITUTES:

  • Tmmar Hindi/Tamarind (Tamarindus Indica)

ACTIONS AND USES IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:

Pharmacological action:

  • Laxative
  • Refrigerant
  • Demulscent
  • Digestive
  • Aperients

Therapeutic uses:

  • In biliousness
  • Fever
  • Enlarged liver
  • Gonorrhea
  • pile

DOSES:

  • 10-30 fruits

CORRECTIVES:

  • Unnab/jujube (zizyphus vulgare)
  • Mastagi/mastic (pistacia lentiscus )

IMPORTANT UNANI FORMULATIONS:

  • Sharbat Alu bukhara
  • Sharbat mulayyan

ASTROLOGY:

  • Saturn

 
By Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences