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16. Moringa oleifera --
{dan.da.lwan} Dan-da-lun17. Millingtonia hortensis --
{É-ka.rąz} Egayit. by Daw Mya Bwin and U Sein Gwan, Pharmacology Research Division, Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Rangoon, 1973.
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16.
Moringa oleifera --
{dan.da.lwan} Dan-da-lun
17.
Millingtonia hortensis --
{É-ka.rąz} Egayit.
Family as given by authors: Moringaceae
p04
Burmese name:
{dan.da.lun}; Dan-da-lun.
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MORINGA OLEIFERA Lam. Encylc. I. 398 (1784).
Moringa pterygosperma Gaertn. Fruct. II. 314 (1791).
Moringa polygona DC. Prodr. ii. 478 (1825).
Moringa zeylanica Pers.
Hyperanthera decandra Willd.
Guilandina Moringa Linn. Sp. Pl. 281 (1753).
English common name: Drumstick.
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1 Ministry of Health, Dept. of Traditional Medicine (MinHealth),
Collection of Commonly Used Herbal Plants (in Burmese), 2003
Description:
A middle sized tree, bark corky; root pungent; young parts tomentose. Leaves
usually 3-pinnate, leaflets of the lateral of the lateral elliptic, the terminal
obovate and slightly larger than the lateral ones. Flowers white, many flowered,
densely arranged. Fruit long, pods, 9-ribbed. Seeds 3-angle, the angles winged.
Family Moringaceae. Flowering from December to May and fruiting from April to June.
Distribution:
Often cultivated in gardens for its edible fruits throughout Burma.
Uses
The Burmese believe that macerated juice of mature green leaves taken twice a
day, once in the morning before food and once before retiring at night produces
a fall in blood pressure
fn04-01.
The plant is used as stimulant in paralytic affections and intermittent fever,
also in epilepsy, chronic rheumatism, as carminative, stomachic, abortificient,
cardiac and circulatory tonic.
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Root bark used as fomentation to relieve spasm.3
Bark used in diseases of liver and spleen, articular pains, tetanus and paralysis. 3
Flowers as stimulant and aphrodisiac. 3
Oil from seeds used as external application in rheumatism. 3
Gum from the plant used for dental caries. 3
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fn04-03 Chopra, P.n., S. L. Nayar & I. C. Chopra (1956). Glossary of INdian medicinal plants, p. 170. New Delhi: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. fn04-03b
Family as given by authors: Bignoniaceae
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Burmese name:
f
{É-ka.rąz} Egayit.
Millingtonia Hortensis Linn. f. Suppl. 291, (1781).
Bignonia Azedarachta Koen. Ann. Bot. i. 178
Bignonia suberosa Roxb. Pl. Cor. iii. II. t. 241.
English common name: Nil.
Description
An erect tree; bark greyish-black, corky. Leaves compound, 2--3 pinnate,
alternate. Leaftets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, sinuate or crenate,
deep green above. Flowers white, fragrant, numberous, pendulous, in terminal
panicles, No fruit seen. Family Bignoniaceae. Flowering from November to December.
Distribution
Widely distributed in Burma. Often planted in house compound for its fragrant
flowers and also for its medicinal value of the root bark.
Uses
Locally the watery extract of the root bark and the leaves is used to
relieve dizziness, for high blood pressure patients.
The Burmese people also believed that the root bark watery extract has an anti-alcoholic effect. fn14-01
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