Steinmetz:Michelia
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Latest revision as of 21:00, 8 June 2009
[edit] Michelia champaca
- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Magnoliaceae
- English Names
- Champak
- Champwood
- Hill Champa
- Golden Champa
- Natural Habitat
- India (temperate Himalayas)
- Malaya
- Indonesia
- Philippine Islands
- Part(s) Used
- Oleum Champacae
- Cortex Champaceae
- Foria Champacae
- Flores Champacae
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- Constituent(s)
- bark: fixed oil
- essential oil
- starch
- tannin
- resin
- sugar
- mucilage; flower: volatile oil; seed: Michelia fat
- Action
- oil: alterative
- bitter
- emmenagogue
- deobstruent
- stomachic
- demulcent; used in perfumery in preparing valuable flower scents; bark: febrifuge
- alterative
- P. S. "Champaca wood" of commerce is an imaginary name (misnomer)
- not applying to this tree
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