Dulce Health Dictionary

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(Latin) A very sweet woman Delcina, Delcine, Delsine, Dulcee, Dulcea, Dulci, Dulcia, Dulciana, Dulcie, Dulcibella, Dulcibelle, Dulcina, Dulcine, Dulcinea, Dulcy, Dulsea, Dulsia, Dulsiana, Dulsibell, Dulsibelle, Dulsine, Dulsee, Dulcinia, Duka, Dukie, Dukine, Dukinea, Dulda, Duldne, Duldnia

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Pithecellobium Dulce

Benth.

Family: Mimosaceae.

Habitat: Cultivated throughout the plains of India.

English: Minila Tamarind, Madras Thorn, Quamachil.

Siddha/Tamil: Karapilly, Kodukkaa Puli.

Folk: Vilaayati Imli, Dakhini Babool.

Action: Bark—astringent, febrifuge, antidysenteric. Stem-bark—spasmolytic. Seeds—anti-inflammatory.

The leaves contain alpha-spinaste- rol; its beta-D-glucoside, octacosanol, kaempferol, its 3-rhamnoside, behenic and lignoceric acids. An insulin-like principle has also been reported in the leaves.

Seeds gave kaempferol, quercetin and a saponin consisting of a mixture of oleanolic and echinocystic acid gly- cosides. Lecithin is also reported from seeds.

The seed exhibited haemolytic agglutinating reaction with human blood. Saponins from seeds show spermicidal activity.

The bark contains tannins (up to 37%) of a catechol type; non-tans 1015%; 1.5% of pectin.... pithecellobium dulce

Dulce Health Dictionary

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Pithecellobium Dulce

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