Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Ziziphus jujuba Mill. [Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu. "Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian Medicinal Plants. (1918)].
Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Ziziphus
jujuba Mill. [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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286. Zizyphus Jujuba, Lamh h. f. b. I., i. 632.
Roxb. 204.
Habitat : — Throughout India, wild and extensively
cultivated.
Ceylon, dry region common. Afghanistan, China, Malay.
Sans. : — Badari.
Arab : — Sidr.
Pers. : — Kunar.
Trimen says it is usually known in Ceylon by its Portugese
name ' Masun ' (Masca, an apple).
Vern. : — Janun jan (Kol.) ; Ringa (Gond.) ; Jelachi (Kan.) ;
Ziben (Burmese) — Brandis. Ber, baer (H.) ; Kul, ber (B.) ;
Beyr,
jangra (Sind) ; Reugha, regi, rega-panda (Tel.) ; Yellaude,
Elandap-pazham (Tam.) ; Yelchi (Kan.) Jom Janum (Santal
and Kol); Bar Koli (Uriya). J. Indraji : — (Porebunder &
Guj.)
Bordi, Bori ; (Marathi) Baher, Bor ; (Hindi) Ber, Ben, Baher.
Trimen :— (Sinh ) Malmdebara ; (Tamil) Uantai.
A moderate-sized, deciduous thorny tree, almost ever-
green, 30-50ft. Young branches and flowers covered with a
dense fuscous tomentum. Large branches drooping, armed
with stipular spines, equal, or, one straight, the other
bent,
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rarely unarmed. " Branchlets, petioles, underside of
leaves,
and inflorescence densely clothed with bright tawny or nearly
white tomentum" (Brandis). " Bark Jin. thick, dark
grey,
nearly black, with irregular cracks. Wood hard, reddish ; no
heart-wood. Annual rings distinct, in specimens from N. India,
indistinct from those in warmer regions. Pores small or mode-
rate-sized, scanty, often oval and sub-divided. Medullary
rays
fine, very numerous, uniform and equidistant ; the distance
between two rays much less than the transverse diameter of
the pores. Pores frequently joined by short, fine, concentric
lines
(Gamble). A very variable tree. Leaves variable. 1-2J by
|-2in., elliptic-ovate or sub-orbicular, dark green and
glabrous
above, covered beneath with a dense woolly pale coloured
tomentum. Margin entire or serrulate. Petiole T J-§in. long.
Flowers greenish-yellow, greenish-white, says Trimen, on
short
axillary cymes fin. long. Calyx glabrous, white. Petals
unguiculate, sub-spathulate, very caducous, reflexed ; lamina
oblong, concave or hooded. Disk fleshy, 10-lobed ; lobes
grooved. Ovary 2-celled. Style 2, united to the middle. Dru-
pes 2-celled, fleshy and mealy, glabrous, mucilaginous when
ripe and orange or red. Stone tuberculate, bony, irregularly
furrowed, generally one-celled, never more than 2-celled.
Use :— The fruit is said to be nourishing (mawkish), mucila-
ginous, and pectoral and styptic. I think that the ripe fruit
has
a very agreeable taste — K.R.K. It is refreshing at any rate,
Trimen says: — "The pulp has a pleasant sweetish
flavour,
when fully ripe. The berries are considered to purify the
blood and to assist digestion. The bark is said to be a
remedy
in diarrhoea. The root is used in decoction in fever, and
powdered to be applied to ulcers and old wounds. The leaves
form a plaster in strangury (Baden-Powell.)
The young leaves are pounded with those of Ficus glomerata
and applied to scorpion stings in the Concan ; they are
also, with acacia catechu leaves, given as a cooling medicine
in
hot weather : dose 2 tolas. According to Ainslie, the root is
prescribed in decoction by the Vytians in conjunction with
sundry warm seeds, as a drink in certain cases of fever
(Dymock).
[Pankaj
Oudhia’s Comment: Through Ethnobotanical surveys in different parts of India
since year 1990 I have collected information about over 500,000 Traditional
Herbal Formulations in which Ziziphus parts are used as important ingredient.
In over 95,000 Traditional Herbal Formulations Ziziphus roots are added as
nonary ingredient. In over 50,000 Traditional Herbal Formulations roots and
leaves are added as tertiary ingredient. Among the Traditional Healers having
expertise in treatment of nervous system related diseases the use of Ziziphus
parts is very popular. Modern researchers are less aware of the important role
played by this important species in treatment of nervous system diseases.
Please see Tables Zizi-1 Zizi-200 for details.]
E-documents on Ziziphus
Citation
Oudhia, Pankaj (2013).
Pankaj Oudhia’s Notes on Ziziphus jujuba Mill. [Kirtikar, Kanhoba Ranchoddas, and Baman Das Basu.
"Indian Medicinal Plants." Indian
Medicinal Plants. (1918)]. www.pankajoudhia.com
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