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    AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA Linn. Averrhoa Pentranda Blanco

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    1) Balimbing is a small tree native to tropical America but now grown throughout the Philippines, with green or yellow, acidic, edible fruit that is eaten or used to flavor foods and remove stains from clothes. 2) The fruit provides some iron and vitamins B and C but is low in calcium. Various parts of the plant have traditional medicinal uses for treating ailments like fevers, vomiting, piles, and skin conditions. 3) The seeds contain an alkaloid and have stimulant effects on the reproductive system as well as intoxicating and emmenagogue properties when consumed.

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    1) Balimbing is a small tree native to tropical America but now grown throughout the Philippines, with green or yellow, acidic, edible fruit that is eaten or used to flavor foods and remove stains from clothes. 2) The fruit provides some iron and vitamins B and C but is low in calcium. Various parts of the plant have traditional medicinal uses for treating ailments like fevers, vomiting, piles, and skin conditions. 3) The seeds contain an alkaloid and have stimulant effects on the reproductive system as well as intoxicating and emmenagogue properties when consumed.

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    1) Balimbing is a small tree native to tropical America but now grown throughout the Philippines, with green or yellow, acidic, edible fruit that is eaten or used to flavor foods and remove stains from clothes. 2) The fruit provides some iron and vitamins B and C but is low in calcium. Various parts of the plant have traditional medicinal uses for treating ailments like fevers, vomiting, piles, and skin conditions. 3) The seeds contain an alkaloid and have stimulant effects on the reproductive system as well as intoxicating and emmenagogue properties when consumed.

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    AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA Linn. Averrhoa Pentranda Blanco

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    1) Balimbing is a small tree native to tropical America but now grown throughout the Philippines, with green or yellow, acidic, edible fruit that is eaten or used to flavor foods and remove stains from clothes. 2) The fruit provides some iron and vitamins B and C but is low in calcium. Various parts of the plant have traditional medicinal uses for treating ailments like fevers, vomiting, piles, and skin conditions. 3) The seeds contain an alkaloid and have stimulant effects on the reproductive system as well as intoxicating and emmenagogue properties when consumed.

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    AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA Linn.

    BALIMBING

    Averrhoa pentranda Blanco

    Local names: Balimbing (Sul.); balimbing (Tag., Bik.); balingbing (Bik., C.


    Bis.); balimbin (Tag.); daligan (Ilk.); dalihan (Ibn.); galangan (P. Bis.); galuran
    (Ibn.); garahan (Bis.); garulan (Ibn.); malimbin (S. L. Bis.); sirinate (Ting.).

    Balimbing occurs in a cultivated or semicultivated state throughout the


    Philippines. It was introduced from tropical America and is now pantropic in
    cultivation.

    This plant is a small tree growing to a height of 6 meters or less. The


    leaves are pinnate, about 15 centimeters long. The leaflets are quite smooth.
    There are usually about 5 pairs of leaflets which are ovate to ovate-lanceolate,
    the upper ones about 5 centimeters long and the lower ones smaller. The
    panicles are small, axillary and somewhat bell-shaped 5 to 6 millimeters long.
    The calyx is reddish purple. The petals are purple to rather bright purple, often
    margined with white. The fruit is fleshy green or greenish yellow, and usually
    about 6 centimeters long, with 5 longitudinal, sharp, angular lobes. The seeds
    are arillate.

    The fruit is fleshy, acid, green or greenish-yellow, and edible. It is eaten


    with or without salt rather extensively by Filipinos and the juice is often used for
    seasoning. As in kamias the juice is used in washing clothes and removes spot
    or stains. The fruit is made also into pickles and sweets. Burkill says that the
    flowers are used in salads in Java.

    Analyses of the fruit show it to be a fairly good source of iron but deficient
    in calcium. Hermano and Sepulveda report that it is a fair source of vitamin B.
    Read adds the fruit also contains vitamin C. According to Correa, the fruit
    contains oxalic acid, and potassium oxalate. Sanyal and Ghose say that the
    seeds contain an alkaloid, harmaline (C13H14N2O).

    According to Kamel, a decoction of the leaves is good for aphtha and


    angina. Crevost and Petelot say that in Tonkin the flowers are considered to
    have a vermifuge action. Burkill and Haniff record the crushed leaves or shoots
    are used by the Malays as an application for chicken-pox, ringworm, and
    headache. A decoction of the leaves and fruit is given to arrest vomiting. Menaut
    states that the leaves are applied in fevers.

    Regnault reports that the Chinese and Annamites use the flowers against
    cutaneous affections.

    The fruit is laxative, a refrigerant, and an antiscorbutic excites appetite, is


    a febrifuge and antidysenteric, and is a sialogogue and antiphlogistic. It is good
    remedy for bleeding piles, particularly internal piles. The fruit is also given in
    fevers. The fruit will also benefit haematemesis, melaema, and some other forms
    of haemorrhage. It is given, in syrup, as a cooling drink in fevers in the
    Philippines. Safford states that eating the uncooked fruit causes hiccoughs.
    Regnault states that the Chinese and Annamites employ the fruit in the form of
    eye-salve against affections of the eyes.

    Sanyal and Ghose report that the drug acts an as a stimulant to the
    reproductive organs in both male and the female. In the female it also increases
    the fluid of milk and the menstrual fluid. In large doses, it acts as an
    emmenagogue like ergot, and produces abortion. It is generally administered in
    the form of an infusion or decoction of the crushed seeds through it may also be
    given in the form of a tincture. Like Cannabis indica, it has slight intoxicating
    properties.

    According to Dey, the seeds may be regarded as a narcotic, anodyne,


    emetic, and emmenagogue. The powder, in doses of ½ to 3 drams, is a good
    anodyne in asthma, colic, and jaundice, and the watery infusion id similarly
    useful.

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