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JAKFRUIT: - The leaves are useful in fever, wounds, boils and skin diseases. The young fruits are acrid, carminative, astringent, and tonic. The ripe fruits are sweet, coolong, aphrodiasiae, laxative, and tonic. The seeds are sweet, aphrodisiac, diuretic, and constipating. The wood is sedative, nervine, and is usefull on vonvulsions. |
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| The latex is usefull in dysopia, pharyngitis and opthalmities.The Chinese consider jackfruit pulp and seeds tonic, cooling and healthful, and to be "useful in overcoming the influence of alcohol on the system." The seed starch is given to reduce biliousness and the roasted seeds are regarded as aphrodisiac. The powder of jackfruit leaves, burned with corn and coconut shells, is used alone or mixed with coconut oil to heal ulcers. The dried latex yields artostenone, adaptable to artosterone, a compound with marked androgenic action. Mixed with vinegar, the latex promotes healing of snakebite, abscesses, and glandular swellings. The root is a remedy for asthma and skin diseases. An extract of the root is taken in cases of diarrhea. The woof is made into poultices. Heated leaves are located on wounds. The wood has a sedative property and pith is said to create abortion. |
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ARTOCARPUS HETEROPHYLLUS, JACK FRUIT. |
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