Rhizophora mucronata Lam.

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 148

Rhizophora mucronata Lam.

Names.

Myanmar: baing-daung, byu-chidauk, payon-ama, pyu. English: mangrove.

Range.

Along coasts of the Old World tropics. In Myanmar, found in Ayeyarwady and Taninthayi.

Conservation status.

Least Concern [LC] ( IUCN 2017).

Use.

Bark: Used to treat hematuria.

Notes.

In China and Japan a decoction of the bark is antidiarrheic; in Indo-China the root is antihemorrhagic, as is the bark (the latter is also a treatment for angina); on the Malay Peninsula a decoction of old leaves is given at childbirth, also of bark, at the same time giving a little of the decoction of the root to the child ( Perry 1980).

Reference.

Perry (1980).