Kuchla
Description:
This is a moderate-sized tree, with a short and pretty thick trunk. The wood is white, hard, and bitter. The leaves are opposite, oval, and smooth on both sides. Flowers small, greenish-white, funnel-shaped, and have a disagreeable odor. The fruit is a berry, round, and about the size of a large apple, enclosing five whitish seeds.
Details:
Botanical Name : Strychnos Nuxvomica
English Name :Nux-Vomica
Hindi Name : bailewa, chibbinge, jahar, kajra, kucchla, kuchla, nirmal
Botanical Name : Strychnos Nuxvomica
English Name :Nux-Vomica
Hindi Name : bailewa, chibbinge, jahar, kajra, kucchla, kuchla, nirmal
Indian Name : Kuchala beej,Itti beeja
Arabic Name : izaragi, khanek-ul-kella, kuchla
Bengali Name : kuchila
English Name : nux-vomica
Kannada Name : hemmushti, hemmusti, hemushti, ittangi,
Malayalam Name : camram, cariram, kanhiram, kanjera,
Marathi Name : jharkhatchura, jharkhathchura, kaajraa, kajra
Oriya Name : vishatinduka
Persian Name : fuluzmahi, izaraki
Sanskrit Name : akutaka, chipita, cutaka, dirghapatra,
Tamil Name : akku, amaram, amati, amatikam, amatikamaram,
Telugu Name : mooshtiganga, moostee, moostighenza, mucidi,
Tibetan Name : ba sa mu sta, ka-ka-nda, ko byi
Urdu Name : azaraqi (kuchla), burada kuchla mudabbir,
Common Name : Nux-vomica, Poison Nut, Snake-wood
Family Name : Loganiaceae
Part Used: Seed,Bark
Medicinal Uses:
- It is used in pruritis and as a local anodyne in inflammations of the external ear.
- Leaves are applied as a poultice on sloughing wounds and ulcers.
- Used in the preparation of medicated product for the hair and scalp.
- It improves the pulse and raises blood pressure and is of great value as a tonic to the circulatory system in cardiac failure.
- It is used as a healing tonic and appetite stimulant.