Strychnos potatorum | SMPB Kerala

Family: Loganiaceae
Vernacular names: Thettamaram , തേറ്റമരം (Malayalam), Clearing nut tree (English),
Distribution: Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
Description: Trees, to 12 m high, bark 10-12 mm thick, brownish-black, rough, corky. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulat. Flowers bisexual, white, in short axillary cymes. Fruit a berry, 16-18 mm across, globose, black, pericarp hard; seeds 1-2, 10-12 mm across, turgid, round, compressed, yellowish.
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Dry deciduous forests
Flowering & Fruiting: March-May

Parts used: Fruits
Properties & Uses: They are used in the treatment of gonorrhea, leukorrhea leukorrhea, gastropathy, bronchitis, chronic diarrhea, dysentery, renal and vesicle calculi, diabetes, conjunctivitis, scleritis, ulcers and other eye disease.
Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk,
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