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Toothache Tree
Scientific Name: Zanthoxylum armatum DC
Family: Rutaceae
Vernacular Name: Timur
Description
A prilkly shrub or small tree up to 6m tall growing on shrubberies. Leaves pinnate, leaflets 5-11 lancelate, more or less serrate, each serrature with a pellucid gland, dark, glossy, terminal one larger than laterals. Flowers small, yellow in terminal or acillarypanilcles. Fruits globose, wrinkled reddish when ripe, aromatic. Seeds globose, shining black.
Flowering and Fruiting: April-May
Uses: Seeds and bark are used in tonic in fever, dyspepsia and cholera. Fruits are used in toothache and considered as carminative and stomachic. Fruits, branches and thrones are used as fish poison.
Chemical constituents
Dried seeds afford an essential oil containing lemonene, linalool and methyl cinnamate as major components.
Distribution in Nepal: 1500 - 2400 m, east to west
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