| Cuddapah Almond |
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Botanical name: Buchanania axillaris Family: Anacardiaceae (Cashew family)
Synonyms: Buchanania angustifolia, Cambessedea axillaris
Synonyms: Buchanania angustifolia, Cambessedea axillaris
Cuddapah Almond is a tree up to 10 m tall,
hairless, branches stout, bark rough, deeply fissured. Leaves are
linear-oblong, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rounded or narrow at
base, entire at margin, blunt, rounded or notched at tip, 7.5-15 x 3-5
cm, smooth, netveined, lateral nerves 12-15 pairs. Leaf-stalks are 1.75
-3 cm long, slender. Flowers are 3-6 mm across, in axillary and
terminal hairless branched panicles, white. Sepals are 5, semicircular,
about 1 mm long. Petals are 5, oblong or ovate, about 2.5 mm long.
Stamens are 10, anthers oblong, ovary hairy. Fruit is obliquely
globose, about 1.25 cm, slightly compressed. Cuddapah Almond is found
in South India and Srilanka.
Medicinal uses:
The seed kernel and bark of
Priyala is used in the form of decoction to treat intrinsic
haemorrhage, diarrhoea with blood and as tonic.As tonic:Grown up child
who has left the breast-milk should be given sweet bolus prepared of
priyala (kernels), madhuka,(Glycyrrhiza glabra) honey, parched paddy
and sugar candy. It acts as saturating and tonic (AH.U.139). Kernels of
the priyala made into a powder and used with milk as an aphrodisiac, in
case of fever and burning sensation.dysentry: powder of the bark mixed
with honey is useful in dysentery with blood.
Medicinal uses:
The seed kernel and bark of
Priyala is used in the form of decoction to treat intrinsic
haemorrhage, diarrhoea with blood and as tonic.As tonic:Grown up child
who has left the breast-milk should be given sweet bolus prepared of
priyala (kernels), madhuka,(Glycyrrhiza glabra) honey, parched paddy
and sugar candy. It acts as saturating and tonic (AH.U.139). Kernels of
the priyala made into a powder and used with milk as an aphrodisiac, in
case of fever and burning sensation.dysentry: powder of the bark mixed
with honey is useful in dysentery with blood. | Identification credit: Ganesh Babu | Photographed at Makalidurga, Karnataka. |
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