Ficus racemosa |
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| Description | ||||||
A small to medium-sized tree, up to 20 m tall, with brown or whitish bark, reddish inside, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate leaves, monoecious, globose or pyriform, cauliflorous, thick, soft fig, turning purplish red when ripe and lenticular achenes. |
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| Useful part | ||||||
Bark, root, leaves, fruits, latex |
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| Medicinal Uses | ||||||
Dysentery, pectoral complaints, diabetes, mumps, wounds, urinary troubles, diabetes, hiccough, leprosy, diarrhoea, bilious affections, miscarriages, excessive thirst, visceral obstructions, as tonic, diabetic boils, vaginal disorders |
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| Major chemical constituents | ||||||
Tetracyclic triterpene-glauanol acetate, leucocyanidin-3-0-β-D-glucopyranoside, leucopelargonidin-3-0-α-L-rhamnopyranoside, ceryl behenate, lupeol, stigmasterol, a-amyrin, β-sitosterol, glycoside, glauanol, hentriacontane, glauanol acetate, tiglic acid ester of taraxasterol, glucose, lupeol acetate, friedelin, gluacol |
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