Balanites roxburghii |
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| Description | ||||||
| A small, spiny, evergreen tree, 3-5 m tall, with bitter, grey bark, 2-foliolate leaves, elliptic-oblong or obovate leaflets, small, greenish-white, fragrant flowers in axillary, few- or many-flowered fascicles and ovoid, yellow, woody, 5-grooved drupes, enclosing solitary, oily, stony seed. | ||||||
| Useful part | ||||||
Fruits, seeds, bark, root, leaves |
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| Medicinal Uses | ||||||
skin diseases, burns, cough, whooping cough pneumonia whooping cough, for easy childbirth, in oral contraceptives, purgative |
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| Major chemical constituents | ||||||
Diosgenin, yamogenin, nitogenin glucosides, balanitisin A to I, glucose, rhamnose, xylose, rhamnose, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, 3-O-β-D glucoside, (25R and S)-spirost-5-en-3β-ol-3-O-[α-L-rhamnopyranosyl (1->2)]-[β-D-glucopyranosyl (1->3)-b-D-glucopyranosyl (1->4)]-β-D-glucopyranoside, deltonin, protodeltonin, palmitic, stearic, oleic and linoleic acids, amino acids, apigenin, quercetin, vanillic acid, syringic acid, ferulic acid, acacetin, 3’,4’-O-methylquercetin |
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