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Kaippu |
| Synonyms: Acacia wallichiana | |
| Vernacular Name:inhala: Kaippu; Eng: Cutch tree | |
| Description:
A maderate sized deciduous tree, 9-12 m in height with dark grayish or
brown rough bark and hooked short spines, leaves bipinnately compound,
leaflets 30-50 pairs, main rachis pubescent with a large conspicuous
near the middle of the rachi; flowers pale yellow, sessile in pedi.mcled
spikes; fruits flat brown pods, shiny and with a triangular beak at the apex and narrowed at the base; seeds 3-10 per pod. |
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| Propagation: By seeds. | |
| Part Used: Bark and heartwood | |
| Chemical Constituents: The chief constituents of the heartwood are catechin and catechutannic acid. The wood contains epicatechin, Afzelchin, catechin tetramer, dicatechin, gallochin, gossypetin, isorhamnetin, kaempferol. | |
| Uses: Bark: astringent, useful in passive diarrhoea either alone or in combination with cinnamon or opium, decoction given internally in leprosy; heartwood: the concentrated aqueous exteact known as khayer gum or leprosy; cutch is astringent, cooling and digestive, beneficial in cough and diarrhoea, applied exterrnally to ulcers, boils and eruptions of the skin. | |
