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Semal Musli

Description :
A large sized tall, deciduous tree having straight, buttressed trunk with a clear bole and widespread branches. The trunk and branch bark is gray in colour having hard, sharp and conical prickles. Leaves are large, deciduous, digitate and glabrous. Leaflets 3-9, entire, lanceolate or oval, cuspidate and tip is acute. Petiole is long (up to 20 cm), petiolules 1,2-2.5 cm long, and stipules small and caducous. Flowers solitary or clustered, axillary or sub-terminal, fascicles at or near the ends of the branches, when the tree is bare of leaves. Calyx is cup-shaped usually 3 lobed. Corolla red or white, petals 5, oblong, recurved, fleshy, tomentose on the out side and sparingly pubescent inner. Staminal tube is short, more than 60 in 5 bundles. Ovary conical, glabrous, stigma 5, capsule ovoid, 5 valued dehiscing by 5 leathery, woody valves and lined with white silky hairs. Seeds are numerous, long, ovoid, black or gray in colour and packed in white cotton.
Details:
Botanical Name: Bombax Malabaricum
Hindi Name : Semal,Pagun,Mochrus
English Name :Silk Cotton Tree,Bombax ceiba, Simul tree
Sanskrit Name : Shalmali
Telugu Name : Bürugu Cettu
Malayalam Name : mullilave,Unnamurika
French Name : Arbre En soie De Coton
Persian Name : Sembhal, Gond Supari 
Arabic Name : Musli Sembhal, Samaghul Mochras (Gum)
Latin Name: Bombax ceiba
Nepali Name: Simal
Assamese Name: Dumboil
Tamil Name : Sittan, Sanmali
Common Name :Silk Cotton Tree, Red Kapok Tree, Shimul, Mochras (Gum),sambali, sāmali
Family Name:    Bombacaceae       

Part Used : Root,Pods

Medicinal Uses:
The roots are sweet, cooling, stimulant, restorative, astringent, alternative, aphrodisiac, demulcent, emetic and tonic. It is used in the treatment of diarrhea, dysentery, menorrhagia, styptic and for wounds. 
The gum is cooling, astringent, stimulant, aphrodisiac, tonic and demulcent in nature. It is useful in dysentery, hemoptysis, pulmonary tuberculosis, influenza, burning sensation, menorrhagia and enteritis.
Bark is mucilaginous, demulcent, emetic and tonic. Used for healing wounds and to stop bleeding.
Flowers are astringent and good for skin troubles and haemorrhoids.
Seeds are useful in treating gonorrhea and chronic cystitis. A paste made out of prickles is god for restoring skin color especially on the face. Young fruits are useful in calculus affections, chronic inflammations and ulceration of bladder and kidney.

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