Nirmali

Description:

The nuts of this species of Strychnos are very largely used in some parts of India for clearing muddy water, and are stated to have found their way into American commerce. (A. J. P., 1871.) The fruit is also employed by the native practitioners of Hindostan, under the name of nirmali, as an emetic and in dysentery. They do not contain strychnine. In clearing water, one of the dried nuts is rubbed hard for a short time around the inside of the earthen water pot; on settling, the water is left pure and tasteless. The seeds contain a large quantity of an albuminous principle, upon which their virtues probably depend. The tree, which grows to a very large size, produces a shining, black, one-seeded berry (that of the nux vomica being many-seeded). 

                            

Details:

Botnical Name: Strychnos Potatorum

English Name: Clearing Nut Tree

Comman Name: Nirmali,Chilladabeeja, Chilu,Tetamkotai, Tetankotai, Tetta

Sanskrit Name : Katakah,Katak, Kataka, Kataka ambuprasada

Kannada Name :  Chilladabeeja, Chilu

Malayalam Name :  Tetranparal, Tetraparel

Oriya Name :  Kotaku

Telugu Name :  Chillachetu, Indupachettu
French Name : Noix floculante, Noix tamoule, Tetamcottai

Latin Name : Strychnos potatorum

Tamil Name :Tettrankottai,Tetankotai, Tetta, Tettamaram, Tettran

Family: Loganiaceae (Strychnaceae)

Parts Used: Seeds, Roots and Fruits

medicinal Uses:

• Seeds are used to purify water.
• Seeds are rich source of polysaccharide gum suitable for use in paper and textile industries.
• The fruits are emetic, diaphoretic alexiteric etc. According to Unani system of medicine, seeds are bitter, astringent to bowels, aphrodisiac, tonic, diuretic and good for liver, kidney complaints, gonorrhea.

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