Coscinium fenestratum
Coscinium fenestratum
Author : (Gaertn.) Colebr.
Family : Menispermaceae
Habit: Liana
Sanskrit: Daruharidra, Darvi
English: Tree turmeric, False calumba, Columbo weed
 
Description

A large woody, dioecious climbing shrub, with yellow stem and roots, broadly ovate, leaves with deltoid, truncate base, white tomentellous beneath, very small yellow male and female flowers in heads on supra-axillary or on old leafless stems, 1-3 subglobose, brown, orange or yellow, tomentellous drupes containing whitish, subglobose seeds.

Useful part

Stem

Medicinal Uses

Eye and skin diseases, inflammation, wounds, ulcers, abdominal disorders, jaundice, diabetes, fever, general debility, skeletal fractures

Major chemical constituents

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