Swietenia macrophylla KingFamily: Meliaceae
Synonyms: Swietenia belizensis Lundell, Swietenia candollei Pittier, Swietenia macrophylla var. marabaensis Ledoux & Lobato, Swietenia tessmannii Harms
Common name: Big-Leaf Mahogany, Bastard Mahogany, Honduras mahogany
- Chinese: 大叶桃花心木
- Esperanto: Grandfolia svitenio
- Finnish: Amerikanaitomahonki
- French: Acajou
- German: Amerikanisches Mahagoni
- Japanese: ôba-mahogani
- Malayalam: മഹാഗണി mahagony
- Peru: aguano, caoba, mahogani, pasich, tuxw
- Spanish: Mogno
- Tamil: மகாகனி
- Telugu: Mahagani, Peddakulamaghani
- Thai: มะฮอกกานีใบใหญ่
- Vietnamese: Nhạc ngựa (cây gỗ)
Description: Deciduous trees, to 25 m high; bark brown. Leaves paripinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 5-13 cm long, slender, glabrous; leaflets 4-10, opposite or subopposite; petiolule 3-4 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 5.5-12 x 2.5-4.5 cm, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, oblong-acuminate, oblong-lanceolate or falcate; base oblique, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, shining above, dull beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 7-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, pale yellow, to 8 mm across, in axillary panicles to 10 cm; pedicel 2-4 mm; calyx lobes 5, lobes 0.5 mm, suborbicular; petals 5, to 4 mm, oblong; disc annular; staminal tube 3.5-4 mm, apically 10-lobed; stamens 10; ovary superior, 5-celled, ovules many; style to 1.5 mm long, attenuate; stigma some what lobed. Fruit a capsule, 8.5 x 6.5 cm, oblong-globose, 5-valved, woody, rusty out side; seeds many, to 6 cm, winged.
Seeds antidiabetic, hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, powdered seed in empty stomach successfully employed for the treatment of diabetes. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
The seeds of Swietenia macrophylla are traditionally used in several indigenous systems of medicine for the treatment of various ailments such as hypertension, diabetes and malaria. The local folks of Malaysia believe that the seeds are capable of “curing” hypertension and diabetes. The seeds are usually consumed raw by chewing. A decoction of seeds of Swietenia macrophylla is reported to treat malaria in Indonesia. Among the Amazonian Bolivian ethnic groups, the seeds are traditionally used to induce abortion by drinking a decoction of the seeds and to heal wounds and various ailments of the skin via external application of the mashed seeds. Toxicity: Uterine haemorrhage [A Guide to Medicinal Plants an Illustrated, Scientific and Medicinal Approach]
Guatemala highland Indians take bitter bark decoction for fever.Malayans eat seeds to lower blood pressure. Mexicans apply scorched seeds in grease to bald spots hoping to restore hair. Mexicans take seed decoction for nervous and pulmonary complaints. Nicaraguan Garifuna drink the bark decoction for fever. Peruvians suggest concentrated bark decoction for hemorrhoids and VD, for 8 menstrual days, as contraceptive . Peruvians suggest concentrated bark decoction with cedro, chuchuhuasi, icoja, andubos, for leishmaniasis. Peruvians suggest the bark decoction for intestinal ails. [Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America]
The seeds of Swietenia macrophylla are traditionally used in several indigenous systems of medicine for the treatment of various ailments such as hypertension, diabetes and malaria. The local folks of Malaysia believe that the seeds are capable of “curing” hypertension and diabetes. The seeds are usually consumed raw by chewing. A decoction of seeds of Swietenia macrophylla is reported to treat malaria in Indonesia. Among the Amazonian Bolivian ethnic groups, the seeds are traditionally used to induce abortion by drinking a decoction of the seeds and to heal wounds and various ailments of the skin via external application of the mashed seeds. Toxicity: Uterine haemorrhage [A Guide to Medicinal Plants an Illustrated, Scientific and Medicinal Approach]
Guatemala highland Indians take bitter bark decoction for fever.Malayans eat seeds to lower blood pressure. Mexicans apply scorched seeds in grease to bald spots hoping to restore hair. Mexicans take seed decoction for nervous and pulmonary complaints. Nicaraguan Garifuna drink the bark decoction for fever. Peruvians suggest concentrated bark decoction for hemorrhoids and VD, for 8 menstrual days, as contraceptive . Peruvians suggest concentrated bark decoction with cedro, chuchuhuasi, icoja, andubos, for leishmaniasis. Peruvians suggest the bark decoction for intestinal ails. [Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America]
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