Birth Star: UTHRADAM
English Name: Jack fruit tree
Malayalam Name: പ്ലാവ്
Botanical Name: Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.
Family: Moraceae
Flowering & Fruiting: November-April
Description: Evergreen trees up to 25 m high. Traditionally the people of Kerala used to design my leaves into very attractive eco friendly disposable spoon to drink rice gruel. Fruits that are tasty, aphrodisiac, yield timber, produce edible nuts, and treat skin conditions A ripe fruit can be consumed raw. Music instruments and furniture are both made of wood. Yellow dye is produced by heartwood. Cattle consume the leaves, and the bark is used to make leather. Wounds can be treated with heated leaves, and ulcers can be treated by burning maize and coconut shell with the ash. Abscesses, snakebite, and glandular swellings can all be helped in the healing process by combining vinegar and latex. The root is utilized in the treatment of asthma and skin conditions. Fever and diarrhoea are both treated with its extraction.
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