Name - राजजम्बू

Botanical name - Syzigium jambos


Description - Medium-sized trees with glabrous branchlets. Leaves lanceolate, cuneate at base. Flowers white, in terminal branched cymes.

Chemical Constituents- Flowers contain demethoxy matteucinol. Fruits contain ketones, hydrocarons, oxides, acetates, aldehydes, esters, alcohols, acids. Essential oil yields ocimene, -pinene, (+)camphene, (-)limonene, cadinene, (+)borneol and alpha-terpineol

Medicinal plants of India ; Ayurveda

Encyclopedia of Indian Medicinal Plants/Herbs mainly using in Ayurveda with good quality pictures and information like therapeutic usage of Medicinal Plants, cultivation, morphology, habitat, flower characters, Chemical content, parts used, research works etc.

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