चुक्रकम् – Garcinia indica

 

Name – वृक्षाम्लम्

Botanical name – Garcinia indica

Description – Slender trees with spreading branches. Leaves obovate-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate. Flowers numerous. Berry globose

Chemical Constituents- Roots contain cambogin. Heart-wood contains euxanthone, biflavonoids – volkensiflavone and morelloflavone. Gum contains lipids. Leaves contain L-leucine. Fruit rind contains hydroxycitiric acid, cyanidin-3-glucoside and cyanidin-3-sambubioside, garcinol, isogarcinol and camboginol. Seed contains fatty acid.

Use – Fat from seed considered astringent, demulcent, emollient and soothing in cutaneous affections.