Ficus semicordata Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. (= F. cunia Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.)

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 124-125

Ficus semicordata Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. (= F. cunia Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.)

Names.

Myanmar: kyet-kadut, ka-dut, lamai, mai-hpang, mai-lusang, tha-dut, ye-ka-on. English: drooping fig.

Range.

Tropical Asia. In Myanmar found in Bago, Kachin, and Yangon.

Use.

Fruit: Used in aphtous complaints.

Note.

In India the bark and fruit are made into a bath for the treatment and cure of leprosy; the fruit is used for aphthous complaints; and juice from the root is used for bladder maladies, juice also boiled in milk for visceral disorders ( Jain and DeFilipps 1991).

Reference.

Nordal (1963).