Journal of Gyansagar Science Foundation 2013 04 01

Author(s): Sanjeev Sogani, Vimal Jain
Publisher: Gyansagar Science Foundation

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Dr. Shuchita Jain, Volume 1 Issue 1 April 2013
Family
Guttifereae An evergreen tree with cinnamon red bark. Flowers white with rusty stalks and used as astringent, used in cough with expectoration, made into paste with butter and sugar used in bleeding piles and burning of the feet. Flower buds used in dysentery. Unripe fruits aromatic, sudorific. Bark-astringent, aromatic combined with ginger used as sudorific. Leaves and flowers-in snake bite and scorpion sting. Flowers contain essential oil and two bitter substances.
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Myrtaceae Moderate sized tree. Leaves 15-20 x 3-4 cms in size, ovate, lanceolate. Flowers fairly large, jointed with the pedicel and greenish white in colour. Berries globose pinkish white or dark purple in colour. Seed powder is effective against diabetes. Flowering and fruiting season is January to June.
Tirthankar Pushpadanta Bahera Botanical Name Terminalia bellirica Family
Combretaceae Deciduous trees, 10-30m high. Bark dark grey and longitudinally fissured. Leaves broadly obovate. Flowers in axillary spikes greenish yellow or creamy white in colour. Fruits ovoid or ellipsoid. It is of medicinal use in Ayurveda
Tirthankar Anantnath Peepal Botanical Name Ficus religiosa Family
Moraceae A large glabrous tree with grey bark. Leaves orbicular ovate, globose. Flowering and fruiting season is April to June. Decoction of young leaves is used for the treatment of general fever. Tree is religious and worshipped by people.
Tirthankar Sheetalnath Kalpvriksha Botanical Name Adansonia digitata L. Family
Bombacaceae It is a small deciduous tree with smooth grey bark. Leaflets are sessile or subsessile, obovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, densely silky brown, hairy. Flowers are pendulous. Fruits are 20-25 cms. long, ellipsoidal densely hairy, pale brown. Flowering occurs in April-May and fruiting in June-December.
Tirthankar Dharmanath Vishnukant Botanical Name Clitoria biflora L. Family
Cleomaceae Twining herbs up to 60 cms. High with angular stems. Flowers are geminate and solitary, deflexed, blue in color. Bracteoles are ovate pods 3-5 cms. Long. Flowering and fruiting seson is August to October. Seeds are antihelmintic.
Tirthankar Shantinath Nandi Botanical Name Cederella toona Roxb. Family
Meliaceae Tall, deciduous trees, 15-20m high. Leaves unipinnate and leaflets 4-15 in pairs. Flowers in drooping panicles, white and scented. Capsules are oblong. Leaf juice given in stomach disorders.
Tirthankar Shreyansnath Tendu Botanical Name Diospyros melanoxylon Family
Ebenaceae A large sized tree. Bark is used as an astringent, decoction of bark in diarrhea and dyspepsia as tonic. A dilute extract used as astringent lotion for the eyes. Leaves used as diuretic, carminative, laxative and styptic. Dried flowers are useful in urinary, skin and blood diseases. Bark, fruit and half ripe fruit contain 19%,15% and 23% tannin.
Tirthankar Kunthunath Tendu Botanical Name Diospyros melanoxylon Family
Ebenaceae A large sized tree. Bark is used as an astringent, decoction of bark in diarrhea and dyspepsia as tonic. A dilute extract used as astringent lotion for the eyes. Leaves used as diuretic, carminative, laxative and styptic. Dried flowers are useful in urinary, skin and blood diseases. Bark, fruit and half ripe fruit contain 19%, 15% and 23% tannin.
Tirthankar Vasupujya Patala Botanical Name Bignonia atrovirens Family
Bignoniaceae Medium sized trees, with rough brown bark. Leaves are acuminate. Flowers in corymbs seeds with membranous wings; flowering and fruiting season is from March to June. It is useful as an aphrodisiac.
Tirthankar Arahanath Mango Botanical Name Mangifera indica L. Family
Anacardiaceae Trees are tall and evergreen having 15-20m height. Leaves are oblong or lanceolate in shape. Flowers are in small terminal spikes. They are yellowish green in
Tirthankar Vimalnath Jamun Botanical Name
Syzygium jambolina (L.)
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