Zanthoxylum rhetsa | SMPB Kerala

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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