Gmelina arborea Roxb.

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 96

Gmelina arborea Roxb.

Names.

Myanmar: mai-saw, thebla, thun-vong, yemane. English: gmelina, gumhar, Malay bush-beech.

Range.

From India to southeastern Asia.

Uses.

Leaf: The juice is used as a treatment for ulcers. Root: Used as a stomachic.

Notes.

In India the bark is used for cholera, swelling and choking in the throat (with garlic), rheumatism, epilepsy, dropsy, and anasarca, convulsion (with bark of Bauhinia purpurea ), syphilis (with shoots, leaves and roots from a combination of species), bronchitis (with many plants), intoxication or stupor, bites of poisonous insects and other animals (with bark of two other plants), and diarrhea; the leaf is a carminative; and the root is used as a tonic, laxative, and for rheumatism ( Jain and DeFilipps 1991). Medicinal uses of the species in Indo-China are discussed in Perry (1980).

Reference.

Perry (1980).