Economic Botany Herbarium Details

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Economic Botany Herbarium Details

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Barcode: CAL0000003727

Family: CAPPARACEAE

Scientific Name: Crataeva nurvula Buch-Ham.

Collector: R.M. Dutta

Country: India

Uses: The bark extract used for promoting appetite and as laxative, it stimulates liver. In calculus and other urinary infections the bark extract is also given. Root-bark are rubefacient. The flowers of the plant are used as astringent, cholagogue.