BARRINGTONIA ACUTANGULA

Plant Name: BARRINGTONIA ACUTANGULA

English Name: Cut nut, Wild almond, Kandu almond.

Local Name:

• Abja, Ambuja,


• Domestic remedies, Dhātriphala,


• Hijja, Hijjala,


• Jalaja,


• Nicula, Nurse’s fruit


• Samudra-phala,

Family: Lecythidaceae

Uses :
When children suffer from a cold in the chest, the seed is rubbed down on a stone with water and applied over the sternum, and if there is much dyspnoea a few grains with or without the juice of fresh ginger are administered internally and seldom fail to induce vomiting and the expulsion of mucus from the air passages. To reduce the enlarged abdomen of children it is given in doses of from 2 to 3 grains in milk. Rumphius states that the roots are used to kill fish and this use of the bark is known in most parts of India. The fish are said to be not unwholesome.