JAMUN
English : Jambul/Blcak plum or berry
Urdu : Jamun/Jaman
Telugu : Naraedu/Nareyr/Neereedu
Description :
Jamun is a well-known indian fruit. It is eaten like other fruits and the seed or kernel is used as a drug. It is a large evergreen tree, attaining 30m in height having opposite leaves,8-20 cm long lanceolate and elliptic oblong in shape,leathery,smooth and shining flowers, small dull or greenish white and in large bunches and fruits,ellipsoid or oblong, 1.5-4 cm long, void,purplish when young, almost black when ripe,
juicy and seed usually one in each fruit.
Action and Uses:
Jambul fruit is astrigent,stomachic,anti-scorbutic,di-uretic and anti-diabetic. Fresh juice and syrup or vinegar prepared from the ripe fruit, is benefecially used in enlargement of liver and spleen,diarrhoea and dysentery and diabetes mellitus. Leaves are astrigent and their juice is a useful remedy fordysentery with bloody discharges.Seed is astrigent and tonic. It is very effacacious for diabetes mellitus and for glycosuria. It allays
unquenchable thrist of diabetics. It is also given in dysentery and diarrohoea.