Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Garuga pinnata Roxb. [Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu. "Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian Medicinal Plants. (1918)].
Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Garuga pinnata Roxb. [Kirtikar,
Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu. "Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian Medicinal Plants. (1918)].
Pankaj Oudhia
Introduction
Based on Ethnobotanical
surveys since year 1990 in different parts of India Pankaj Oudhia has
documented vital information about Medicinal Plants mentioned in the famous
publication by Kirtikar and Basu (1918). Through this research document Pankaj
Oudhia has tried to present original document with additional notes. For
complete paper with pictures, Interactive Tables, Video and Audio clips please
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For original publication by Kirtikar and Basu (1918) please visit https://archive.org/details/indianmedicinalp01kirt
253. — Garuga pinnata, Roxb. h. f. b. l, i. 528 ;
Roxb. 370.
Vevn> : — Kurak (Bomb.); Kusimba also kakad (Concan) ;
Garuga or gam goo (Tel.) ; Joom (B.)
Habitat : — Throughout India.
A large, deciduous tree. Bark lin. thick, soft red inside,
grey or brown outside, exfoliating in large irregularly
shaped
scales. Wood variable : sapwood white, large ; heartwood
reddish brown, moderately hard, even-grained. Pores large,
not
numerous, often subdivided, sometimes filled with resin.
Medul-
lary rays short, moderately broad, on a radial section,
visible
as narrow horizontal plates, and giving a pretty silvergrain
(Gamble). Young shoots and inflorescence grey pubescent.
Leaves imparipinnate, crowded near the ends of the branches.
Leaflets 0-9 pair, opposite or nearly so ; lanceolate, or
ovate-
lanceolate, crenate. Flowers j^ellow, or pale-yellow, in
axillary
panicles, several at the end of branches. Calyx campanulate,
10-ribbed, 5-cleft, lined by a thin disk, with a crenate
margin,
on the edges of which the 5 petals and 10 stamens are
294 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS.
inserted. Ovary 4-5-celled, 2 collateral ovules in each cell.
Fruit
a fleshy globose drupe, pale yellow when ripe, enclosing 2,
rarely more, bony, 1-seeded tuberculated stones. Fresh
foliage —
April or May— with the flowers or after them. Leafless during
the greater part of the dry season.
Parts used : — The fruit, and juice of the leaves and stem. [Pankaj
Oudhia’s Comment: All parts are used as medicine.]
Uses : — " In Salsette, near Bombay, the juice of the
stem is
dropped into the eye to cure opacities of the conjunctiva ;
the
fruit is pickled and eaten as a cooling and stomachic remedy.
In the Concan, the juice of the leaves, with that of the
leaves
of Adhatoda Vasiea and Vitex trifolia, mixed with honey, is
given in asthma" (Dymock.). The epicarp of the fruit is
also
cooked in Bombay with the flower heads of the aroid Shevala
plant to reduce the acrid taste of the latter, and eaten as
vege-
table.
[Pankaj
Oudhia’s Comment: Through Ethnobotanical surveys I have collected
information about over 75,000 Traditional Herbal Formulations in which Garuga
parts are added as primary, secondary, tertiary and nonary ingrdients. Garuga
roots are added as tertiary ingredient in over 13000 Formulations. These
Formulations are used in treatment of old wounds. Garuga bark is added in 25000
Herbal Formulations as octonary ingredient. These Formulations are used in
Diabetes Complications.Please see Tables Garu-1 to Garu105 for details.]
E-documents on Garuga
Citation
Oudhia, Pankaj (2013).
Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Garuga
pinnata Roxb.
[Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu.
"Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian
Medicinal Plants. (1918)]. www.pankajoudhia.com
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