Casuarina equisetifolia L.

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 44-45

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scientific name	Casuarina equisetifolia L.
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Names.

Myanmar: kabwi, pinle-kabwe, pinle-tinyu. English: Australian pine, beefwood, casuarina, common ironwood.

Range.

Tropical Asia to Australia and Oceania. Cultivated in Myanmar.

Uses.

Bark: Used to treat chronic diarrhea and dysentery.

Notes.

The medicinal uses of this species in India are discussed in Jain and DeFilipps (1991). Medicinal uses of this species in China are discussed in Duke and Ayensu (1985).

Reference.

Nordal (1963).