Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Grewia tiliifolia Vahl [Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu. "Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian Medicinal Plants. (1918)].
Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on
Grewia tiliifolia Vahl [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
188. Grewia tilicefolia, Vahl. H.F.B.I., I. 386,
Roxb. 431.
Sans. : — Dharmana, Dhanurvriksha ; Dhanvan.
N. 0. TILIACE.E. 213
Vern. : — Pharsa dhamani (H. and B.) ; Dhaman Karkani
(Bomb j ; Olat (Santa!) ; Kbesla, kasul (Gond) ; Tbada,
tharra
(Tarn.) ; Cbaraehi, tharrab, Udupai, tada (Tel.) ; Tbadsal,
dadsal,
batala, biitale (Kan.)
Habitat : — Hot dry forests throughout Western India, as-
cending 4,000 feet in tbe Himalaya. Western Peninsula, Burma,
Ceylon low country.
A large deciduous tree, with cinereous exfoliating bark.
Leaves ovate, sometimes rliomboidal or 3-lobed, obliquely
cor-
date, acute or obtuse, acuminate at apex, bluntly
crenate-serrate,
sparsely stellate-pubescent or glabrous above,
stellate-tomentose,
often white beneath, stellate-pubescent on the nerves ; basal
nerves 5 ; blade 2-5|-in. by l-4in., petiole J-lin. long;
stipules
Jin. long, leafy falcate, veined and auricled, deciduous.
Flowers small, in axillary umbels ; peduncles |-lin. long,
axillary, 3-8 fascicled, 3-flowered ; pedicels shorter than
the
peduncles ; buds ovoid, grey-tomentose, 5-ribbed ; bracteoles
linear-lanceolate. Sepals linear-ovate, |in. long, glabrous,
white tomentose outside and yellowish within. Petals ovate,
emarginate, yellow, turning purple, much shorter than the
sepals ; basal gland green and densely white-villous on the
margins and often more than |- the length of the petal.
Torus short-ribbed, glabrous, obscurely-toothed and hairy
at top. Stamens, with purple filaments and yellow anthers.
Ovary globose, villous ; style longer than the stamens ;
stigma peltate, irregularly 5-lobed. Drupe 2-4 lobed, but not
deeply, of the size of a pea, black ; lobes several-seeded.
The fruit is said to be eaten (Trimen).
Parts used : — The bark and wood. [Pankaj
Oudhia’s Comment: All parts are used as medicine.]
Uses : — in the Konkan the bark, after removal of the tuber,
is rubbed down with water, and the thick mucilage strained
from it and given in 5-tola doses, with 2 tolas of the flour
of
Panicum miliaceum (warri) as a remedy for dysentery
(Dymock).
The bark is also employed externally to remove the irrita-
tion from cow-itch. [Pankaj Oudhia’s Comment: It
is still a popular remedy for this purpose.]
214 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS.
Colonel Cox says that the wood reduced to a powder acts
as an emetic, and is employed by the natives as an antidote
to
opium poisoning. [Pankaj Oudhia’s Comment: Through
Ethnobotanical surveys since year 1990 I have collected information about over
130,000 Traditional Herbal Formulations in which Grewia root is added as
secondary ingredient. In over 250,000 Traditional Herbal Formulations Grewia
bark is added as primary and tertiary ingredients. In over 50,000 Traditional Herbal
Formulations Allelopathically enriched Grewia leaves are added as denary
ingredient. In over 35,000 Formulations Grewia Panchang is added as septenary
ingredient. Please see Tables Grewia-1 to Grewia-300 for details.]
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Citation
Oudhia, Pankaj (2013).
Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Grewia tiliifolia Vahl [Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu.
"Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian
Medicinal Plants. (1918)]. www.pankajoudhia.com
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