- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Bombacaceae
- English Names
- Boabab tree
- Monkey Bread tree
- Sour Gourd tree
- Cream-of-tartar tree
- Lemonade tree
- Natural Habitat
- Senegal
- tropical countries (including India)
- Part(s) Used
- Cortex Cael cedra
- Folia
- Fructus
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- Constituent(s)
- pulp of fruit: free tartaric acid
- phlobaphene
- gum
- mucilage
- potassium bitartrate
- salts
- glucose: leaf: wax
- glucose
- gum
- albuminoids
- sodium chloride
- tannin
- potassium acid tartrate
- salts; bark: tannin
- gum
- wax
- albuminoids
- potash
- adansonin (glucoside antagonistic to strophantin)
- Action
- The fruit is used in making a pleasant acidulous drink in fever and is also employed in dysentery. Leaf: diaphoretic
- astringent
- febrifuge; bark; febrifuge
- used as a substitute for cinchona bark
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