Hovenia dulcis Thunb

SPECIFICATION

English names: Japanese raisin tree, coral tree.

Description: Evergreen tree about 7-10 m. in height. Young twigs lenticellate and pubescent. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, with 3 nerves from the base; margins sharply denticulate. Inflorescence in axillary or terminal cyme; flowers pale-green. Fruit globose, borne on pinkish-brown swollen peduncles, sweetish and edible. Seeds round, slightly compressed.

Flowering period: June - August.

Distribution: Grows wild and is cultivated in the mountains.

Parts used: Fruit and fruit-bearing branches, collected when the fruit is fully ripe. After picking, they are dried in the sun or in dryers.

Chemical composition: The fruit contains sugars: glucose, fructose and sucrose; salts: potassium nitrate, potassium malate.

Therapeutic uses: The ripe fruit and the small twigs bearing ripe fruit are a reconstituent and depurative remedy. They are used for the treatment of alcoholic intoxication, dysuria, general debility and dry throat The daily dose is 3 to 5 g in an alcoholic maceration.

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