Buchanania lanzan |
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| Description | ||||||
An evergreen tree, up to 15 m tall, with tomentose branches when young, rough bark, broadly oblong, obtuse, coriaceous leaves, small greenish-white flowers in axillary and terminal panicles and black, ovoid or globose drupes and hard stones. |
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| Useful part | ||||||
Root, root bark, leaf, fruit, gum |
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| Medicinal Uses | ||||||
skin diseases, cancer, antidote for snake bite |
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| Major chemical constituents | ||||||
Maleic acid, amino acids, fatty acids, kaempferol-7-O-glucoside, quercetin-7-O-rhamnoside, quercetin-3-O-rhamnoglucoside, anacardic acid, cardol, cardanol |
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