A. Juss.Family: Meliaceae.
Habitat: Hills of Sikkim, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and the Andamans.
English: Bastard Cedar, White Cedar, Indian Red Wood.Siddha/Tamil: Aglay, Melei Veppu.Folk: Chikrassy.Action: Bark—astringent, febrifuge, antidiarrhoeic, spasmolytic, diuretic. The plant is used in skeltal fractures.
The bark contains sitosterol, melia- none, scopoletin and 6,7-di-MeO- coumarin. The leaves gave querce- tin galactoside, galloyl glucocide and tannic acid. The bark and young leaves contain 15 and 20% tannin respectively. Seeds contain tetranortriterpenoids.EtOH (50%) extract of the stem bark exhibited spasmolytic, hypoten- sive and diuretic activity. The saline extract of seeds showed haemaggluti- nating activity.
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