Miswak / Pilu Stick

Description :
The toothbrush tree is a small tree or shrub with a crooked trunk, seldom more than one foot in diameter, its bark scabrous and cracked, whitish with pendulous extremities. The root bark of the tree is light brown and the inner surfaces are white, the odour is like cress and its taste is warm and pungent. Its fibrous branches have been used as toothbrushes by many Islamic communities — miswaks.Flowers greenish to yellowish, very small, in loose, slender-branched axillary or terminal panicles, up to 10 cm long. Fruit spherical, fleshy, 5-10 mm in diameter, pink to scarlet when mature, single seeded; seeds turn from pink to purple-red and are semi-transparent when mature. 

Details :
Botanical name: Salvadora persica
Common Name : Toothbrush Tree, Mustard tree, Salt brush
English: Toothbrush Tree, Mustard tree, Salt brush, Mustard bush
Malayalam Name: Uka, Ukamaram
Hindi Name : meswak, Peelu
Marathi Name : khakan, pilu
Tamil Name : uka
Telugu Name : gunnangi
Kannada Name : gonimara
Sanskrit Name : gudaphala, pilu

Part Used : Bark, Root,leaves,twig

Medicinal Uses / Benefits :

• The root bark is tonic, stimulant and emmenagogue and is said relieve splenalgia.
• The leaves are antiscorbutic, deobstruant, diuretic, expectorant and tonic.
• They are useful in asthma, bronchitis, cough, strangury, painful tumours, scurvy and all type of poisons.
• Tender twigs are used as toothbrush.

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