மூலிகை : காட்டலரி kattalari, உதளை utalai Botanical name : Cerbera odollam Common Name: Suicide Tree, grey milkwood, jungle mango, pong pong, sea mango, yellow-eyed cerbera Ayurvedic uses: Milky sap and leaves are emetic and purgative. - Bark is purgative. - Fruit combined with Datura used for hydrophobia. - Red fruit, when fresh, rubbed on legs for rheumatism. - Latex is rubifacient on the skin. - Fruit kernel used as abortifacient. - Oil rubbed on skin to cure itches. - In Java, along with heating oils, rubbed on skin as rubifacient to cure colds. - In Burma, oil applied to hair as an insecticide. The Bark, Leaves, Fruits, Latex of the Othalam is used for rabies, skin diseases and ringworm. Toxicity • Seeds are toxic. • Green fruit employed to kill dogs. • Latex causes blindness. • Fruit kernel is an irritant poison, which may cause vomiting, purging, collapse and death. • Plant with its cardiac glycoside content has cause of suicidal or homicidal deaths.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:46:52 +0000
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