Aegle marmelos
Aegle marmelos
Author : (L.) Correa
Family : Rutaceae
Habit: Tree
Sanskrit: Bilva, Sriphalah, Sivadrumah
English: Bael tree, Holy fruit tree, Golden apple, Bengal quince, Indian quince, Stone apple
Description
Armed trees, up to 12 m tall, with axillary, straight, single or paired spines, grey and corky bark, often drooping branchlets, trifoliate, ovate-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate glabrous leaflets, 3-6 greenish white, fragrant flowers in axillary racemes and large ovoid to sub-globose yellow hard fruits, filled with many oblong, flat, seeds, embedded in thick orange or flesh coloured mucilaginous sweet pulp.
Useful part
Root, leaves, fruits, bark
Medicinal Uses

diarrhoea, dysentery, seminal weakness, flatulence, urinary troubles, vomiting, thirst, palpitation of heart, indigestion, bowel inflammation, body pain, intermittent fever, swellings, gastric irritability in children, eye diseases, deafness, inflammation, diabetes, jaundice, ulcers, piles, indigestion, asthma, cancer, nervous system disorders, oedema, snakebite, wounds, purgative
Major chemical constituents

Marmelosin, skimmianine, haplopine, alloimperatorin, β-sitosterol, imperatorin, marmelin, aegelin, xanthotaxol, marmelide, scoparone, scopoletin, umbelliferone, marmesin, skimmin, dietamnine, xanthotoxin, isopimpinellin, isoimperatorin, bergapten, osthol, auraptin, γ-fagarine, aurepten(e), lupeol, marmin, aegelinol, dictamnine, rutin, marmesinin, xanthotoxin, aegelinol, tembamide, psoralen, O-methylscopoletin, decursinol, haplopine, a-phellandrene, p-cymene, cineole, d-limonene, ethyl-n-amylketone, methyl-n-heptylketone, citronellal, linalool, citral, eugenol, caryophyllene, cuminyl alcohol