- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- English Names
- Jambul
- Jambool
- Java Plum
- Malabar Plum tree
- Jambolan plum
- Natural Habitat
- India
- Indonesia
- Malaya
- West Indies
- Queensland (Australia)
- Part(s) Used
- Cortex Syzygii jambolani
- Fructus Syzygii jambolani
- Semen Syzygii jambolani
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- Constituent(s)
- fruit: jamboline
- resin
- tannic acid
- essential oil
- fatry oil; bark: gallus-acid
- resin
- tannin; seed: jamboline
- chlorophyll
- albumen
- gallic acid
- ellagic acid
- essential oil
- fatty oil
- tannin
- starch
- resin
- albumen
- sugar
- Action
- bark: anti-diabetic
- anti-diarrhetic
- diuretic
- astringent
- tanning material; berry: anti-diabetic
- astringent; seed: anti-diabetic
- astringent
- diuretic. P. S. The glucoside jamboline is said to have the power of checking the pathological conversion of starch into sugar in cases of increased production of glucose
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