Barcode: CAL0000013488

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Family: RUTACEAE

Scientific Name: Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr.

Collector: G.P. Roy

Country: India

Uses: Unripe or half ripe fruits are used as astringent, digestive, and stomachic; also used for diarrhoea and dysentery. Pulp aromatic and cooling, used in the form of sherbet. Marmelosin is the active constituent; it is used as a laxative and diuretic, if used in strong doses act as cardiac depressant.