Aegle marmelos 
Common Name: Bael
fruit.
Nepali Name: Bael.
Sanskrit Name: Bilva
Description:
A medium seized tree bearing strong auxiliary thorn. Leaves
with 3 or 5 leaflets. Flowers greenish white, sweet scented,
about 2.5 cm across, in small branches. Fruit 8-20 cm diameter,
globose, green, finally greyist, round, woody, pulp orange-colored,
sweet aromatic.
Distribution: it grows in sub-Himalayan and tropical forests
as well as in plains.
Parts used: fruit, leaf, and, bark of stem as well as root.
Phytochemical properties:
Mucilage, pectin, glucose, tannin, volatile oil, marmelosin;
aegelin, aegelinin etc. are found in leaf; marmin is found
in stembark; potassium, calcium, phosphate, silica etc are
found in stem ash.
Medicinal properties:
Sweet, aromatic, cooling, alterant, nutritive and laxative.
Unripe fruit is astringent, digestive and stomachic. Used
in chronic dysentery and diarrhoea, unripe fruit improves
appetite and digestion, asthma, intermittent fevers, in
inflammation of uterus. It is used in cholera due to its
digestive and carminative properties. Both ripe and unripe
fruit are regarded as an astringent. It helps in the healing
of ulcerated intestinal surfaces. It possesses antiviral,
anthelmintic, and anti-inflammatory properties and has appreciable
activity against Vibrio cholera and Salmonella.
Doses:
Powder: 3-6gm
Juice: 10-20ml
Ayurvedic preparation:
Bilvadi churna, Bilvadi leha, Bilvadi Ghrita, bilva panchak
kwath.
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