The medicinal plants of Myanmar
Author
DeFilipps, Robert A.
Deceased
Author
Krupnick, Gary A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1357-4826
Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, MRC- 166, Washington, DC, 20013 - 7012, USA
krupnick@si.edu
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Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.
Names.
Myanmar
:
mak-lang
,
mung-dung
,
ndung
,
pa-noh
,
panwe
,
peinne
.
English
: jackfruit.
Range.
India. Cultivated in Myanmar.
Uses.
Bark
: Employed as poultice to treat ulcers and abscesses.
Sap
: Utilized for same purposes as the bark.
Seed
: Used to treat indigestion.
Root
: Used to treat diarrhea, and in a compound extract for fever.
Notes.
In India the leaf is fried with the leaves of
Emblica
and
Azadirachta
, mixed with mustard oil and applied on sores, smallpox, carbuncles, and used as an anthelmintic; the flower us employed during childbirth to clear the fetus (
Jain and DeFilipps 1991
). In China latex from the stem is used for abscesses and ulcers; the bark is employed as a gargle; the leaf is used for diarrhea; and the ash made from the root is used for diarrhea and worms, and is also taken after childbirth (
Duke and Ayensu 1985
). The fruit pulp and seeds are considered cooling, tonic, and pectoral. In Indo-China the wood is used as a sedative to treat convulsions, boiled leaves are given to both animals and women to activate the secretion of milk, and the sap is considered antisyphilitic and a vermifuge. On the Malay Peninsula and in the Philippines, the ashes of the leaves, with or without oil, are applied to treat ulcers and wounds (
Perry 1980
).
The latex contains caoutchouc, resin, and cerotic acid (
Duke and Ayensu 1985
). The wood contains a yellow pigment, morin, cyanomaclurin; the bark has tannin; cerotic acid is found in the latex; and the fruit an pulp have sugar, protein, fiber, and ash (
Perry 1980
). Chemical constituents, pharmacological action and medicinal uses of this species in Indian Ayurveda are discussed in detail by
Kapoor (1990)
.
Data on the propagation, seed treatment, and agricultural management of this plant are given in
Katende et al. (1995)
.
References.
Perry (1980)
,
Forest Department (1999)
.