Bridelia retusa | SMPB Kerala

Family: Phyllanthaceae
Vernacular names: Mulluvenga, Mullankkayini, മുള്ളുവേങ്ങ, മുള്ളങ്കായിനി (Malayalam), Ekavira (Sanskrit), Gauli (Hindi), Mulluvengai (Tamil)
Distribution: Indo-Malaya
Description: Medium trees. Leaves simple, alternate. Flowers unisexual; greenish-yellow, sessile or shortly pedicellate, crowded in dense axillary or terminal racemes. Fruit a drupe, purplish-black; seed one in each pyrene.
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Semi-evergreen and deciduous forests, also in the plains
Flowering & Fruiting: August-December

Parts used: Bark and root
Properties & Uses: Antiviral and anti-rheumatic. Bark is used for the treatment of infertility, arthritis, abdominal pain and diarrhea. It is also used as a cream with gingelly oil in rheumatism. The root is used as antidote to snake poison. The leaf paste is used to treat conjunctivitis.
Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk,
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