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State Medicinal Plants Board (SMPB) Kerala

Toona ciliata M.Roem.

  • Family: Meliaceae
  • Vernacular names: Chandanavembu,, ചന്ദനവേമ്പ് (Malayalam), Indian mahogany (English), Tunah (Sanskrit), Tunumaram (Tamil)
  • Distribution: Indo-Myanmar; cultivated in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Africa and the Hawaiian Islands
  • Description: Large trees; bark thick, reddish-brown, rough, exfoliating in large flakes. Leaves paripinnate, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, white, in terminal or axillary drooping panicles. Fruit a capsule, 5-valved; seeds many, oblong, thin, winged at both ends.
  • Habit: Tree
  • Habitat: Semi-evergreen and evergreen forests
  • Flowering & Fruiting: February-May

  • Parts used: Bark
  • Properties & Uses: Bark is aphrodisiac, expectorant. Bark is used to treat headache, fever, itching, biliousness, scabies, chronic infantile dysentery, cough and ulcers.
  • Systems of Medicines: Folk,
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