Medicinal Plants Research:: Kottakkal Aryavaidya Sala

Symplocos cochinchinensis

Author : (Lour.) Moore

Family : Symplocaceae

Habit: Tree

Sanskrit:Lodhrah

English: Chunga

Description

A medium-sized, evergreen tree, 5-18 m tall, with oblanceolate leaves, whitish-yellow, fragrant, sessile flowers in panicles and sub-globose, blue-black, beaked, faintly ribbed pyrenes.

Useful part

Bark

Medicinal Uses

Eye diseases, asthma, bronchitis, arthritis, ulcers, tumours, leprosy, skin diseases, fever, bleedings, leucorrhoea, diarrhoea, dysentery, gonorrhoea

Major chemical constituents