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State Medicinal Plants Board (SMPB) Kerala

Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.

  • Family: Rutaceae
  • Vernacular names: Babloos, Bablimoos,, ബബ്ലൂസ്, ബബ്ലിമൂസ് (Malayalam), Bamblimoos (English), Pamplimas (Tamil)
  • Distribution: Native of South East Asia
  • Description: Small trees, greyish-brown. Leaves unifoliolate, alternate, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, creamy, solitary or in axillary clusters. Fruit a hesperidium, greenish or yellow, glandular; seeds large, wrinkled.
  • Habit: Tree
  • Habitat: Cultivated
  • Flowering & Fruiting: April-November

  • Parts used: Leaves and fruits
  • Properties & Uses: Nutritive, cardiotonic and refrigerant. Fruit is used for the treatment of influenza, cough, catarrh and asthma. Rind is anthelmintic; useful in vomiting, griping of abdomen and diarrhea. Leaves are useful in epilepsy, cholera and convulsive cough.
  • Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk, Unani,
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