Anacardium occidentale

Family: Anacardiaceae
Vernacular names: Kappamavu, Parangimavu, Kashumavu, കപ്പമാവ്, പറങ്കിമാവ്, കശുമാവ് (Malayalam), Cashew-nut tree (English), Kajutah (Sanskrit), Kaju (Hindi), Mundri (Tamil)
Distribution: Native of South America; now widely cultivated in Asia and Africa
Description: Trees, bark pale grey to brown; blaze dull pink. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate. Flowers polygamous, yellow, streaked with pink, in terminal prominently bracteate panicles. Fruit a reniform nut, grey, seated on a large pyriform fleshy body formed of enlarged disc and top of the pedicel; seed reniform, ascending.
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Cultivated
Flowering & Fruiting: November-April

Parts used: Fruit, seeds, root and bark
Properties & Uses: Aphrodisiac, anti-diabetic and anti-diarrheal. The cashew apple as well as the juice possesse antidiarrheal property. The juice is valued as a diuretic and is useful for treating kidney troubles and advanced cholera. It also used to treat mental derangement, morning sickness, sexual debility and smallpox.
Systems of Medicines: Folk, Unani, Homeo,
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