Catunaregam spinosa

Common Name : Mountain Pomegranata
Binomial Name : Catunaregam spinosa
Tamil Name : Karai,
Family : Rubiaceae
Date : 18 Sep 2015
Place : Sorathur, Tiruvannamalai, TN, India

Uses

---> Fruit only eaten cooked. The fruit is roasted.
---> The rind and fruit have useful emetic, diaphoretic and antispasmodic properties
---> The fruit is useful in cases of acute bronchitis and asthma
---> The fruit is applied externally in fever
---> The bark is a sedative and nervine carminative
---> Bark is given internally and externally in the treatment of fevers
---> An infusion of the bark root is used as an emetic
---> The fruit contains saponin in the pericarp and a glucosidic saponin in the pulp
---> The seeds contain traces of alkaloids
---> The root contains the coumarin 'scopoletin'