Eurycoma longifolia Jack

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 156

Eurycoma longifolia Jack

Name.

English: bittu bark.

Range.

Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China, south into Indonesia. In Myanmar found in Kayin and Taninthayi.

Uses.

Bark: Very bitter, used for indigestion and as a vermifuge. Fruit: Antidysenteric.

Notes.

Medicinal uses of this species in Indo-China, where the native name of the tree is "tree of 100 maladies"; Vietnam, where it is "much used in the Vietnamese pharmacopeia"; Cambodia; and the Malay Peninsula are discussed in Perry (1980). The speices has been reported as used for headache, fever, malaria, parturition, smallpox, sores, syphilis, and wounds ( Duke 2009).

Reference.

Perry (1980).