Talisay
Benefits of Talisay Tree
1) The leaves applied to the head and sides are refreshing and sudorific – a medicine that causes or increases sweating.
2) The red leaves and fruits are used to expel worms.
3) The leaves are mixed with oil and rubbed on the breast to cure pain.
4) The bark is used against gastric fevers and bilious diarrhea.
5) The bark is also antidysenteric. Dysentery is infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea.
6) The sap of the tender leaves, mixed and cooked with the oil of the kernel. The solution is used to cure leprosy.
7) The decoction of bark is used as remedy for gonorrhoea and leucorrhoea. Gonorrhoea is a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra. Leucorrhoea discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection.
8) The bark is recommended as a cure for bilious fever.
9) The juice of the young leaves is employed in the preparation of an ointment for scables, leprosy, and other cutaneous diseases, also useful for headache and colic.
10) The leaves are macerated with palm oil and applied as a remedy for tonsillitis.
11) Keeping the leaves in an aquarium is said to lower the pH and heavy metal content of the water. It has been utilized in this way by Betta breeders in Thailand for many years. Local hobbyists also use it for conditioning the betta's water for breeding and hardening of the scales.
Studies
• Antioxidant / Hepatoprotective: (1) Study of leaf extracts of TC and an isolated antioxidant, corilagin, was found to provide hepatoprotection in experimentally induced liver injury through suppression of oxidative stress and apoptosis. (2) TC leaf extract showed hepatoprotective effect against D-Galactosamine (D-GalN)-induced liver injury. There was dose-dependent inhibition of mitrochondrial swelling with dose-dependent superoxide radicals scavenging activity.
• Anti-Inflammatory: Topical
1) The leaves applied to the head and sides are refreshing and sudorific – a medicine that causes or increases sweating.
2) The red leaves and fruits are used to expel worms.
3) The leaves are mixed with oil and rubbed on the breast to cure pain.
4) The bark is used against gastric fevers and bilious diarrhea.
5) The bark is also antidysenteric. Dysentery is infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea.
6) The sap of the tender leaves, mixed and cooked with the oil of the kernel. The solution is used to cure leprosy.
7) The decoction of bark is used as remedy for gonorrhoea and leucorrhoea. Gonorrhoea is a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra. Leucorrhoea discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection.
8) The bark is recommended as a cure for bilious fever.
9) The juice of the young leaves is employed in the preparation of an ointment for scables, leprosy, and other cutaneous diseases, also useful for headache and colic.
10) The leaves are macerated with palm oil and applied as a remedy for tonsillitis.
11) Keeping the leaves in an aquarium is said to lower the pH and heavy metal content of the water. It has been utilized in this way by Betta breeders in Thailand for many years. Local hobbyists also use it for conditioning the betta's water for breeding and hardening of the scales.
Studies
• Antioxidant / Hepatoprotective: (1) Study of leaf extracts of TC and an isolated antioxidant, corilagin, was found to provide hepatoprotection in experimentally induced liver injury through suppression of oxidative stress and apoptosis. (2) TC leaf extract showed hepatoprotective effect against D-Galactosamine (D-GalN)-induced liver injury. There was dose-dependent inhibition of mitrochondrial swelling with dose-dependent superoxide radicals scavenging activity.
• Anti-Inflammatory: Topical