gout and rheumatism.
The plant contains an acrid juice which is poisonous and irritant; irritation is caused by raphides of calcium oxalate. A toxic principle has been reported from the inflorescence, spathe and flower stem. It produced effect in rabbits ranging from hypo-aesthesia to paralysis.
The flowers contain cytokinin along with swertisin, swertiaj ap onin, cyanidin, peonidin and ferulic acid.
Roasting and boiling appear to destroy the toxicity of leaves.
Zanthoxylum acanthopodium
DC.
Family Rutaceae.
Habitat Sub-tropical Himalaya from Kumaon to Bhutan, and in Khasi hills.
Zamia angustifolia Jacq.
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Ayurvedic Tumburu.
730 Zanthoxylum armatum DC.
Folk Nepaali Dhaniyaa, Timur.
Action Plant—uses similar to Zanthoxylum armatum.
The fruit gave tambulin and tambuletin. The stem bark contains hgnans—sesamin, fargesin and eudesmm; triterpenoids—beta-amyrin and beta- amyrenone.
The seeds are extensively used in the preparation of tooth powders.
The essential oil from the seed (from Kanpur) contains d-hinalooh (37.6), dipentene+phellandrene (47), citral (6), esters as methyl cinnamate (6.2%) and free acids. Seeds from Sikkim contain 50% d-linalooL
Zanthoxylum armatum DC.
Synonym Z. alatum Roxb.
Z. var. plan ispinum Sieb. & Zucc.
Family Rutaceae.
Habitat Jammu & Kashmir and Garhwal.
English Toothache tree, Indian Prickly Ash.
Ayurvedic Tumburu (fruit). Tejabala, Tejaswani, Tejohva, Tejovati (stem bark).
Unani Faaghir, Kabaab-e Khandaan. Siddha ř Tejyovathi.
Action ř Stem bark—used in cough, dyspnoea, hiccup, stomatitis, rheumatism. (The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India.) Stems and
