Garuga pinnata Roxb.

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 38

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scientific name	Garuga pinnata Roxb.
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Names.

Myanmar: chinyok, mai-kham, sinyok, taesap. English: garuga.

Range.

China, East Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya, and the Philippines. In Myanmar, found in Bago, Mandalay, and Rakhine.

Use.

Juice: Used to treat asthma.

Notes.

The medicinal uses of this species in India are discussed in Jain and DeFilipps (1991) as follows: Juice from the stem is used in an eye-drop for opaque conjunctiva; leaf juice mixed with honey is used for asthma; the fruit is used as a stomachic. In Indo-China the bark is used with honey to treat asthma ( Perry 1980).

Reference.

Perry (1980).