dihydroactinidiolide are reported from fresh leaves.
The leaves are reported to exhibit hepatoprotective activity. Leaves also contain hypotensive principles. Astra gali
and isoquercitrin have been isolated from leaves.
Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb.
Synonym D. dubia Wall. ex A. DC.
Family Ebenaceae.
Habitat Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Peninsula.
English Coromandel Ebony, Persimmon.
Ayurvedic Tinduka (var.), Dirghapatrakaa.
Siddha/Tamil Karum Dumbi, Thumbi, Beedi-elai.
Action Leaves—carminative, laxative, diuretic, styptic. Bark— astringent. Used in dyspepsia and diarrhoea. Unripe fruit— carminative and astringent. Ripe fruit—antibilious. Dried flowers— used in anaemia, inflammation of spleen, also in leucorrhoea. Leaf and dried flower—used in dyspepsia and diarrhoea, topically in scabies. Aerial parts—hypotensive.
Half-ripe fruit contains 23, ripe fruit 15 and bark 19% tannin.
The bark and sapwood extracts yield beta-sitosterol, lupeol, betulin and betulinic acid. Leaves contain hentriacontane, hentriacontanol, alpha-amyrin, baurenol, ursolic, oleanolic and betulinic acids.
