Family b Oleaceae.
Habitat Arunachal Pradesh (Mishmi Hills).
Action Toxic to CNS.
The extract of the bark and leaves are used as an adulterant of ifiegal opium and are sold in the black market in certain areas in Indonesia.
The bark contains an iridoid glucoside, ligstroside, and the phenolic glucosides, syringin and sinapaldehyde glucoside.
Fraxinus hookery Wenz.
Family Oleaceae.
Habitat F excelsior Linn.—Great
Britain, Europe and North America.
F hookery—Western Himalaya at
2,700—3,350 m.
English European Ash, Weeping Ash.
Folk b Kum, Sum, Hum, Sinnun (Punjab, Kashmir).
Action F excelsior—laxative, antiinflammatory, febrifuge. The bark and leaves are used for arthritis and rheumatism.
The herb gave coumarin derivatives, including fraxin, fraxetin and fraxinol; flavonoids based on aesculetin, including aescin, also rutin and quercetin. A coumarin derivative is actively diuretic.
A saccharine exudate, manna, consisting principally of mannitol, is obtained by incising the stem barks of some Fraxinus sp. found in India. The manna of commerce is derived from F ornus. F hookery (bark)—astringent, febrifuge, bitter tonic. Leaves—cathartic.
Ash Bark is used, in decoction, in the treatment of intermittent fever and ague, as a substitute for Peruvian bark. Also used for treating obstructions of the liver and spleen and in rheumatism and arthritic affections.
Preparations of European Ash Bark showed an analgesic, anti-exudative and antiphlogistic action. (German Commission E.)
Fraxinus ornus Linn.
Synonym F excelsior auct. non L. Family Oleaceae.
Fucus vesiculosus Linn. 273
Habitat Indigenous to the coasts of the Mediterranean from Spain to Smyrna.
English Flake Manna.
