Botanical name: -Salacia reticulata
Family name:-HIPPOCRATEACEAE
English name:- salacia, salaretin
Tamil name:- karanti, koranti, ponkoranti
Description:-
Salacia reticulata is an indigenous plant of the genus Salacia grown in dry zone forests in Sri Lanka.
A large woody climber or scandent shrub,
glabrous. Leaves 4.2 -11.6 × 2.2-5.4cm, glabrous; petioles 0.7-1.2 cm long, flowers
2-8 on axillary tubercles or peduncles, 6-7 mm in diameter ; greenish-yellow;
petals 5. Fruit a drupaceous, globose, 1.6-3.8 cm diameter, pink orange when
ripe, seeds 1-4 . Seeds yellow.
Grows in:- Srilanka,India
Edibal parts:-Fruit
Status:-Native
Status:-Native
Ayurvedic usage:-Claimed to
lower blood sugar levels, reduces rheumatoid arthritis, and used as a herbal
tea. This plant can be used to treat allergies due to sensitivity to pollen,
skin ailments and bronchial asthmas.
Parts used to make medicine:-
Root, stem, leafKothalahimbutu food drink can be attributed to intestinal a glucosidase inhibitory activating. Kothalahimbutu retard absorption of carbohydrate in the small intestine that prevent the increase of glucose concentration.