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State Medicinal Plants Board (SMPB) Kerala

Grewia tiliifolia Vahl

  • Family: Malvaceae
  • Vernacular names: Chadachi, ചടച്ചി (Malayalam), Dhaman (English), Dhanurvriksha (Sanskrit), Dhamni (Hindi), Unnu (Tamil)
  • Distribution: Tropical Africa, India to Indo-China
  • Description: Medium trees. Leaves simple, alternate. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in axillary umbels. Fruit a drupe, globose to subglobose.
  • Habit: Tree
  • Habitat: Moist deciduous forests
  • Flowering & Fruiting: February-June

  • Parts used: Bark and leaves
  • Properties & Uses: Bark is astringent, sweet, acrid, antipyretic, vulnerary, constipating, emetic, styptic, aphrodisiac and tonic. It is used to treat burning sensation, cough, skin diseases, wounds, ulcers, diarrhea, epistaxis, hemorrhages, seminal weakness and general debility.
  • Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk,
  • Traditional Uses:Crushed bark is used to wash hair, it will prevent hair falling.
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