Tamarind Fruit Benefits

Known as Indian date, tamarind is a tree in family Fabaceae. This fruit is native tropical from Africa grows wild in Sudan. It is cultivated in Tanzania, Nigeria, and Cameroon. The Spanish and Portuguese colonists introduce tamarind fruit in South America and Mexico in the 16th century. In 1797, the first tree of tamarind was plant in Hawaii.

Tamarind Fruit Benefits Tamarind has one type of fruit that has the medium-dense growth of trees reach heights a crown 12, 2-18, 1 meter. The crown is a vase-shaped stripe with the dense foliage. Not only grows well in full sun but also grow well in loam, sandy, clay,and acidic soils even tamarinds very tolerant of aerosol salt and drought. They are 2,5cm in width, borne in racemes, five petalled with yellow or streaks. Have the length 11-15 cm, tamarind is an indehiscent legume. The fruit bears a fleshy, acidulous pulp and juicy. The tamarinds of Asian have longer pods bearing 5-11 seeds while those of India and West Africa have smaller pods with 1-5 seeds only, the seeds are brown and flat. The taste of tamarinds is sweet and sour. It is highly rich in calcium acid, sugar, and vitamin B. The trees of tamarind fruit are sensitive frost. The timber consists of yellowish sapwood and dark red heartwood also softer. A mature tree produces about 170 kg fruits every year. The native of tamarind is Sudan but the largest consumers come from the Asia, Mexico, and tropical Africa. Pulp Tamarind fruit is very popular and can be eaten. The ripe fruit is regarded palatable as it becomes sweet in taste rather than being sour. In HP sauce is used by western cuisines. In India, it is widely consumed in number of dishes. Phytochemical studies have indicated in tamarind fruits the presence of alkaloids, phlobatamins, tannins, sesquiterpenes, saponins. This compound is active in against Gram positive and negative bacteria at range temperature of 4-31 0C in tamarind. The health benefit of tamarind is for making a decoction along with potash for curing body pain, stomach disorder, a blood purifier, jaundice, and skin cleansing agent. This treatment is particularly applicable in Northern Nigeria which is taken from fresh stem bark and leaves the part of tamarind. The benefit from tamarind is not for health but it can use for the furniture too.

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Stinging nettle is a plant. People use the root and above ground parts as medicine. Stinging nettle is used for many conditions, but so far, there isnt enough scientific evidence to determine whether or not it is effective for any of them. Stinging nettle root is used for urination problems related to an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia [BPH]). These problems include nighttime urination, too frequent urination, painful urination, inability to urinate, and irritable bladder. Stinging nettle root is also used for joint ailments, as a diuretic, and as an astringent. Stinging nettle above ground parts are used along with large amounts of fluids in socalled irrigation therapy for urinary tract infections (UTI), urinary tract inflammation, and kidney stones (nephrolithiasis). The above-ground parts are also used for allergies, hayfever, and osteoarthritis. Some people use the above ground parts of stinging nettle for internal bleeding, including uterine bleeding, nosebleeds, and bowel bleeding. The above ground parts are also used for anemia, poor circulation, an enlarged spleen, diabetes and other endocrine disorders, stomach acid, diarrhea and dysentery, asthma, lung congestion, rash and eczema, cancer, preventing the signs of aging, blood purification, wound healing, and as a general tonic. Stinging nettle above ground parts are applied to the skin for muscle aches and pains, oily scalp, oily hair, and hair loss (alopecia). In foods, young stinging nettle leaves are eaten as a cooked vegetable. In manufacturing, stinging nettle extract is used as an ingredient in hair and skin products. Stinging nettle leaf has a long history of use. It was used primarily as a diuretic and laxative in ancient Greek times. Dont confuse stinging nettle (Uritica dioica) with white dead nettle (Lamium album).

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Herbs, shrubs , small trees , or climbers . Stems sometimes prickly, rarely thorny; hairs simple , branched, or stellate , sometimes glandular . Leaves alternate, solitary or paired , simple or pinnately compound , without stipules; leaf blade entire, dentate , lobed , or divided . Inflorescences terminal , overtopped by continuing axes, appearing axillary , extra-axillary , or leaf opposed, often apparently umbellate , racemose, paniculate , clustered, or solitary flowers, rarely true cymes, sometimes bracteate . Flowers mostly bisexual , usually regular, 5-merous, rarely 4- or 6-9-merous. Calyx mostly lobed. Petals united . Stamens as many as corolla lobes and alternate with them, inserted within corolla, all alike or 1 or more reduced; anthers dehiscing longitudinally or by apical pores . Ovary 2-5-locular; placentation mostly axile ; ovules usually numerous . Style 1. Fruiting calyx often becoming enlarged, mostly persistent . Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds with copious endosperm; embryo mostly curved . About 95 genera with 2300 species: best represented in western tropical America, widespread in temperate and tropical regions ; 20 genera (ten introduced ) and 101 species in China. Some species of Solanaceae are known in China only by plants cultivated in ornamental or specialty gardens: Atropa belladonna Linnaeus, Cyphomandra betacea (Cavanilles) Sendtner, Brugmansia suaveolens (Willdenow) Berchtold & Presl, Nicotiana alata Link & Otto, and Solanum jasminoides Paxton.[1]

Genus Capsicum
Shrubs or annual or perennial herbs; pubescence of simple hairs . Stems branched. Leaves solitary or paired , petiolate ; leaf blade simple, entire or sinuate . Inflorescences solitary or few-flowered clusters at branch forks or leaf axils ; peduncle absent. Flowers nodding or erect , actinomorphic . Pedicel erect or nodding. Calyx broadly campanulate to cup-shaped, denticulate , sometimes slightly enlarged. Corolla white, blue, or violet, campanulate or rotate, divided halfway or more. Stamens inserted near distal end of corolla tube ; filaments slender; anthers yellow or purplish, ovoid , dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2- (or 3) - locular ; ovules numerous . Style slender; stigma small, capitate. Fruit a moist berry, sometimes large, erect, nodding, or reflexed . Seeds yellowish, discoid ; embryo coiled , subperipheral. About 25 species: all in South America, two or three cultivated and naturalized worldwide; one species in China.[2]

Taxonomy
[ Back to top ] Domain: Eukaryota ( ) - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes o Kingdom: Plantae ( ) - Haeckel, 1866 - Plants Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae ( ) - Cavalier-Smith, 1981 Phylum: Tracheophyta ( ) - Sinnott, 1935 ex CavalierSmith, 1998 - Vascular Plants Subphylum: Euphyllophytina ( )

Infraphylum: Radiatopses ( ) - Kenrick & Crane, 1997 Class: Spermatopsida ( ) Brongniart, 1843 Subclass: Asteridae ( ) Takhtajan, 1967 Superorder: Solananae ( ) - R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992

Order: Solanales ( ) - Dumortier, 1829 o Famil y: Solana ceae ( )A.L. de Jussieu , 1789, nom. cons. nightsh ades, solanac es Su bfa mil y: Sol an oid eae ( )

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Genus: Capsic um ( ) - C. Linnae us, 1753 Indian Paintbr ush

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Balanites aegyptiaca

Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Rosids Order: Zygophyllales Family: Zygophyllaceae Genus: Balanites Species: B. aegyptiaca Binomial name Balanites aegyptiaca
(L.) Delile, 1812

Synonyms Ximenia aegyptiaca L. Balanites aegyptiaca is a species of tree, classified either as a member of the Zygophyllaceae or the Balanitaceae.[1] This tree is native to much of Africa and parts of the Middle East.[2] There are many common names for this plant.[3] In English the fruit has been called desert date, soap berry tree or bush, Thron tree, Egyptian myrobalan, Egyptian balsam or Zachum oil tree;[4] in Arabic it is known as lalob, hidjihi, and heglig (hijlij).In HASSANIYA "MAURITANIA" it is called inteishit. In Hausa it is called aduwa, in Swahili mchunju and in Amharic bedena.[5]

Contents

1 Distribution 2 Description 3 Cultivation o 3.1 Food o 3.2 Medicinal o 3.3 Agroforestry 4 References 5 External links

Distribution
Balanites aegyptiaca is found in the Sahel-Savannah region across Africa. It is one of the most common trees in Senegal and Mauritania, one of oits local names is teishit.[6] It can be found in many kinds of habitat, tolerating a wide variety of soil types, from sand to heavy clay, and climatic moisture levels, from arid to subhumid.[7] It is relatively tolerant of flooding, livestock activity, and wildfire.[7]

Description
The Balanites aegyptiaca tree reaches 10 m (33 ft) in height with a generally narrow form. The branches have long, straight green spines arranged in spirals. The dark green compound leaves grow out of the base of the spines[4] and are made up of two leaflets which are variable in size and shape.[8] The fluted trunk has grayish-brown, ragged bark with yellow-green patches where it is shed. [4] The tree produces several forms of inflorescence bearing yellow-green bisexual flowers with five long greenish petals.[4][6] In Senegal, they are pollinated by halictid bees, including Halictus gibber, and flies, including Rhinia apicalis and Chrysomia chloropiza. [6] The carpenter ant Camponotus sericeus feeds on the nectar exuded by the flowers.[6] The larva of the cabbage tree emperor moth Bunaea alcinoe causes defoliation of the tree.[7]

Cultivation
Food
Balanites aegyptiaca has been cultivated in Egypt for more than 4000 years, and stones placed in the tombs as votive offerings have been found as far back as the Twelfth Dynasty. The tree was figured and described in 1592 by Prosper Alpinus under the name 'agihalid'. Linnaeus regarded it as a species of Ximenia, but Adanson proposed the new genus of Agialid. The genus Balanites was founded in 1813 by Delile.[9] The yellow, single-seeded fruit is edible, but bitter.[7] Many parts of the plant are used as famine foods in Africa; the leaves are eaten raw or cooked, the oily seed is boiled to make it less bitter and eaten mixed with sorghum, and the flowers can be eaten.[3] The tree is considered valuable in arid regions because it produces fruit even in dry times.[7] The fruit can be fermented for alcoholic beverages.[8] The seed cake[disambiguation needed] remaining after the oil is extracted is commonly used as animal fodder in Africa.[8] The seeds of the Balanites aegyptiaca have molluscicide effect on Biomphalaria pfeifferi.[10] Where the species coexist, African elephants consume the desert date.[11]

Medicinal
Desert date fruit is mixed into porridge and eaten by nursing mothers, and the oil is consumed for headache and to improve lactation.[3] Oil from the fruit is used to dress Bark extracts and the fruit repel[12] or destroy[4] freshwater snails and copepods, organisms that act as intermediary hosts host the parasites Schistosoma, including Bilharzia, and guinea worm, respectively. Existing worm infections are likewise treated with desert

date, as are liver and spleen disorders. A decoction of the bark are also used as an Abortifacient and an antidote for arrow-poison in West African traditional medicine.[4] The seed contains 30-48% fixed (non-volatile) oil, like the leaves, fruit pulp, bark and roots, and contains the sapogenins diosgenin and yamogenin.[4][12] Saponins likewise occur in the roots, bark wood and fruit.[4] Diosgenin can be used to produce hormones such as those in combined oral contraceptive pills and corticoids.[6]

Agroforestry
The tree is managed through agroforestry. It is planted along irrigation canals and it is used to attract insects for trapping.[7] The pale to brownish yellow wood is used to make furniture and durable items such as tools, and it is a low-smoke firewood and good charcoal.[7][8] The smaller trees and branches are used as living or cut fences because they are resilient and thorny.[7][8][12] The tree fixes nitrogen.[7] It is grown for its fruit in plantations in several areas.[8] The bark yields fibers, the natural gums from the branches are used as glue, and the seeds have been used to make jewelry and beads.[8]

References

epithet: conicum Vell. Botanical nam Capsicum conic Vell.