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Belimbing buluh (Averrhoa bilimbi)

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Traditional uses

  • used as an antibacterial, antiscorbutic, astringent, postpartum protective medicine, in the treatment of fever, inflammation of the rectum, and diabetes

Leaves: Infusions and decoctions

  • used in the treatment of itches, boils, skin eruptions, bites of poisonous creatures, rheumatism, cough, cold, mumps, and syphilis

  • treat pimples

  • used in the treatment of scurvy, bilious colic, obesity, and diabetes

Fruits: make juice

  • useful for bleaching stains from the hands and rust from white cloth, and also tarnish from brass

  • to treat high blood pressure (hypertension)

Leaves: decoction

  • to treat cough

  • can cure mumps (beguk)

Bark: cooked with onion like porridge

  • to treat heel pain

  • can cure stomach ache

Young leaves: eat raw

Fruit

Fruit

Preparation/ part of plants used

Leaves: make paste

Fruits: grated + a little salt applied to the face

Leaves, flower, fruit: boiled

Young leaves: pounded with black pepper (Piper nigrum)

  • used in cooking to add sour taste

  • treat fever

Common names

-bilimbi, cucumber tree, tree sorrel, pickle tree (English)

-huang gua shu (Chinese)

-vilimbipuli, irumpanpuli, and bilimbi (India)

-belimbing buluh and blimbing asam (Malaysia).

-belongs to the Oxalidaceae family

-originated in the Southeast Asia and is claimed as a native of the West Malaysia and the Indonesian Moluccas.

-a small tree which grows up to 15 m high with sparsely arranged branches.

-has compound leaves with twenty–forty leaflets each and 5–10 cm long, leaves are hairy with pinnate shapes and form clusters at the end of branches.

-flowers are heterotristylous with petal 10–30 m long, yellowish green to reddish purple.

-The fruits are produced on the bare stem and trunk. The fruits are greenish in color with a firm and juicy flesh which becomes soft on ripening and extremely acidic

Descriptions

Chemical constituents

Fruits: hexadecanoic acid [palmitic acid], 2-furaldehyde and (Z)-9-octadecenoic acid, butyl nicotinate and hexyl nicotinate, nonanal (Z)-3-hexenol, octane, tricosane, (E)-2-decenal, nonanoic acid, (Z)-9-pentacosene, 2-furfural and (Z)-9-tricosene, 2,4-dihydroxy-6-((4-methylpentyloxy) methyl) benzaldehyde, oxalic acid and it also rich in Vitamin C

 

Leaves: alkaloid, tannins, saponins, flavonoids, cardiac glycosides, glycosides, triterpenes, phenols, and carbohydrates, squalene, 3-(6,10,14-trimethylpentadecan-2-yl) furan-2 (5H)-one, 2,3-bis (2,6,10-trimethylundeca-1,5,9-trienyl) oxirane, phytol, 3,4-Dihydroxyhexanedioic acid, malonic acid, and 4,5-Dihydroxy-2-methylenehydroxybenzaldehyde using methanol extract

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