AVERRHCEA CARAMBOLA

Sunday, 02 July 2006

Herbal treatment Bleeding Piles, particularly the Internal Piles Eng.----Chinese gooseberry. Sans. and Hind.----Karmaranga Bom.----Karamara Ben.----Kamarak. Duk.----Karmal, Meeta-kamarunga. Guz. & Mah.----Kamarakha. Tel.----Karomonga, Tamaratamu. Tam.----Tamarattai. Can.----Darehuli. Mal.----Tamaratta. Kon.----Karmbala. Assam.----Kardai. Habitat.----Cultivated in India; introduced from the new-world by the Portuguese. Parts Used.----The leaves, root and fruit. Constituents.----The fruits contain a watery pulp which contains much acid potassium oxalate. Action.----Laxative, refrigerent and anti-scorbutic. Preparations.----Syrup made from the fruit juice. Uses.----Two varietiesare known:----sweet & sour. The five angled fruit is eaten raw as well as used in curries and pickles. It is cooked with other vegetables and grains to make them more palatable and easy of digestion. The ripe fruit is antiscorbutic and highly cooling. The fruit-juice made into a syrup will form an excellent cooling drink in relieving thirst and febrile excitement; the fruit-juice employed in washing clothes renders them clean removing any spots or stains found thereon. The ripe----fruit which is generally sour and contains oxalic. acid is a good remedy for bleeding piles, particularly the internal piles. Azadirachta Indica----See Melia Azadirachta.

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