thorns—hypoglycaemic. Bark— used for cleaning teeth, also for treating diarrhoea. Fruits, seeds, bark—carminative, antispasmodic, anthelmintic. Fruits and seeds— used as a tonic in fever, dyspepsia and skin diseases. Essential oil of the fruit—antibacterial, antifungal and deodorant. Used in tooth powders.
The essential oil from dried fruits contains linalool (64.1%), linalyl acetate, citral, geraniol methyl cinnamate, limonene and sabinene.
Dried bark and branches contain lignans—sesamin, fargesin, eudesmin; a hactone pulviatide; dictamine, 8- hydroxydictamine and gamma-fagarine; magnoflorine and xanthophanine. The root contains magnoflorine, xanthoplanine, skimmianine, dictamine and gamma-fagarine. Seeds contain flavonoids tambulin and tambulol.
Dosage Stem bark—l0—20g for decoction; fruit—3—4 g. (API, Vol. II VoL IV.)
Zanthoxylum americanum Mill. Family Rutaceae.
Habitat Canada and North America.
English Toothache tree, Prickly Ash.
Action Bark, berries—used internally and externaly to treat rheumatism and toothache; also for circulatory insufficiency and fevers.
Folk Nepaali Dhaniyaa.
Zanthoxylum oxyphyllum Edgew. 731
The bark contains alkaloids gammafagarine, beta-fagarine, magnoflorine, laurifoline, nitidine, chelerythrine, tembetarine, candicine; coumarins include xanthyletine, xanthoxyletin and alloxanthyletin.
Related species, found in India, give more or less similar pattern of chemical constituents and therapeutic activities. The bark of Z. armatum is used for cleaning teeth. The seeds of Z. acanthopodium are extensively used in the preparation of tooth-powders. The fruits of Z. budrunga and the root of Z. nitidum are prescribed for toothache.
Zanthoxylum budrunga Wall. ex DC.
Synonym Z. limonella (Dennst.)
Alston.
Z. rhetsa DC.
Fagara budrunga Roxb.
F rhetsa Roxb.
Family Rutaceae.
