indicated the use of the fruit in emesis and giddiness.
The seeds and leaves contain calliterpenone and its monoacetate; the former also contain fatty acids, betasitosterol and its beta-D-glucoside.
Dosage Dried inflorescences
powder—1—3 g (API Vol. II); fruit powder—1—2 g. (API Vol. IV.)
Calophyllum apetalum Wild.
Synonym C. wightianum T. Anders. Family Guttferae; Clusiaceae.
Habitat The evergreen forests of Western Ghats up to 330 m.
Siddha/Tamil Shirupinnai.
Action Resin—antiphlogistic, anodyne. Seed oil—antileprotic.
The leaves, stem, bark and root contain friedelin. Leaves also contain canophyllol and a triterpene lactone; stem, beta-amyrin; bark, apetalic acid. Heartwood contains a clathrate named wightianone palmitic acid. Wood contains mesoinositol.
Calophyllum inophyllum Linn.
Family Guttferae; Clusiaceae.
Habitat Coastal regions, particularly Orissa, Karnataka, Maharashtra and the Andamans. Also cultivated as an ornamental tree.
English Indian Laurel, Alexandrian Laurel.
Ayurvedic Punnaaga, Tunga,
Sultaan champaa, Naagchampaa, Raajchampaa.
Siddha/Tamil Punnai, Punnagam.
Action Oil of seeds—specific for scabies and other skin diseases, and for rheumatism. Used in the
Calotropis procera (Aft.) R.Br. 113
treatment of genitourinary and venereal diseases. Bark—juice is taken as purgative; pounded with water is applied in orchitis, and for dressing ulcers. Root bark— antibacterial, used for indolent ulcers. Leaf—used in vertigo and migraine, also for chicken pox, skin inflammations, scabies, sunburn. Flowers and stamens—used as a substitute for Naagakesara (Mesua ferrea Linn.)
The root bark and heartwood contain xanthones. The xanthones exhibited anti-inflammatory activity in rats against carrageenan-induce oedema; also CNS depressant activity. Jacareubin and 6-deoxy derivatives exhibited antiulcer activity in rats.
Calophyllolide, a complex 5-Ph- coumarin isolated from nuts, showed antiarrhythmic (as effective as quinidine), bradycardiac coronary dilator, and anticoagulant, also anti-inflammatory and antiarthritic
