Artocarpus lakoocha Wall. ex Roxb.
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Artocarpus lakoocha Wall. ex Roxb. |
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Artocarpus lakoocha Wall. ex Roxb.
Names.
Myanmar: mai-mak-hat, mayauklok-ni, meik-mahot, myauk-laung, myauk-lok. English: monkey-jack.
Range.
India to Myanmar. Cultivated for edible fruit. In Myanmar, found in Chin, Mandalay, Taninthayi, and Yangon.
Uses.
Juice and Seed: Used as a purgative. Bark: An astringent.
Notes.
In India the bark and exudation are used externally for spleen complaints; the seed is used as a purgative ( Jain and DeFilipps 1991). In Indo-China the root is employed as a tonic and deobstruent, and the leaves are used in treating dropsy ( Perry 1980).
The stem yields two triterpenes, B-amyrin acetate and lupeol acetate ( Perry 1980).
Reference.
Perry (1980).
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