tubang bakod (PURGING NUT TREE)

folkloric:

· In the Philippines, oil of seeds used as a drastic purgative.

· Decoction of roots used a cure for diarrhea.

· External applications for bleeding, ulceration of wound, pruritus.

· Dosage: Use fresh leaves, 2 to 3 blades, remove petiole, pound and extract juice, decoct in water.

· Seeds: 1-4 seeds is mildly purgative; an overdose causes drastic purgation.

· Decoction of leaves or roots used for diarrhea.

· Bark, slightly pounded, placed in the mouth as cure for snake bites; also applied to bites of various animals.

· The leaf decoction is also used as a cough remedy and as galactagogue.

· Poultice of bark used for sprains and dislocations. Sap is used for toothaches.

· Leaves are applied to wounds and pruritic lesions.

· A vigorous massaging of the oil onto the abdomen is believed to be abortifacient..

· Decoction of young leaves taken for fevers.

· Infusion of leaves, hot or cold, mixed with lime juice, used as lotion for fevers.

· Twigs used for cleaning teeth.

· Used for scabies, eczema, and ringworm.

· Juice used for toothaches and strengthening the gums.

· Preparation from root-bark applied to sores.

· Emulsion of sap with benzyl benzoate used for scabies, eczema and dermatitis.

· Roots used as antidote for snake bites.

· In other countries, the seed is used as antihelminthic or abortive; the leaves as insecticidal.

· Roots used as antidote against snake venom; root extract used for bleeding gums.

· White latex used as mouth disinfectant; used externally for piles.

· Fresh, viscid juice from the stem used to arrest bleeding or hemorrhage from wounds, ulcers, cuts, and abrasions; used to promote healing by coagulating blood and forming an air-tight film when dry, similar to that produced by collodion.

· In South Africa, traditionally used by the Tswana as laxative.

· In Gambia, leaves used to make mouthwash.

· In the Gold Coast, leaves used as ingredient in enema preparations.

· In Southern Nigeria, used as remedy for jaundice, applied by rectal injection.

· In Malaya used as rubefacient. Malays use the latex as vulnerary.

· In the Cape Verde Islands, used to stimulate secretion of milk.

· In Cambodia, applied to sores and ulcers; the leaves considered insecticidal; the seeds considered abortifacient.

· In Brazil, used as anthelmintic.

· In Goa, root-bark applied externally for rheumatism. Fresh stems are used as toothbrushes, to strengthen the gums and cure bleeding, spongy gums, or gum boils.

· In Madagascar and Guiana as an anti-diarrhetic; latex is applied to decayed teeth and wounds, and used as styptic; the roots given as emetic and purgative.

· In India, applied as cataplasm to the breasts and as lactagogue. Also, used as styptic.

· In Peru, traditionally used for external wound healing and gastric ulcers.

 

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