Zanthoxylum rhetsa DC.
- Family: Rutaceae
- Vernacular names: Mullilam, മുള്ളിലം (Malayalam), Indian prickly ash (English), Tejasvini (Sanskrit), Badrang (Hindi), Perunsoori (Tamil)
- Distribution: Indo-Malesia
- Description: Small trees. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate. Flowers polygamous, greenish-yellow, in terminal cymose panicles. Fruit a capsule; seeds globose.
- Habit: Tree
- Habitat: Evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains.
- Flowering & Fruiting: March-November
- Parts used: Bark and fruits
- Properties & Uses: Aromatic, stimulant, digestive and appetizer. Fruits are used for the treatment of asthma, bronchitis, diseases of mouth and throat, hiccough, heart diseases, diarrhoea and piles. Oil is used to treat cholera.
- Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk,
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