Botanical name:-Artocarpus heterophyllus
Family name:- MORA
English name:-Jack tree
Tamil names :-muracapalam, Varukkai
Sanskirt name :-Muraja-phala
Tamil names :-muracapalam, Varukkai
Sanskirt name :-Muraja-phala
Distribution:-Sri Lanka,India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia Philippines. in Cameroon, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar, Mauritius, Brazil , Jamaica, Bangladesh
Ayurvedic usage:-
Treatment for:-Diabetes mellitus, Irregular bowel syndrome, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Snake bites, Abscess.
Parts used to make medicine:- Leaves, Roots,BarkLatex
Edibal parts:-Fruits
Treatment for:-Diabetes mellitus, Irregular bowel syndrome, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Snake bites, Abscess.
Parts used to make medicine:- Leaves, Roots,BarkLatex
Propagation:-Seeds.
Read more:
"Jak (Artocarpus heterophyllus) has two varieties. Soft(Vala) and Hrd (Waraka).The waraka or hard Jack is more popular than soft. The bark is used mainly for medicinal purposes. It is widely used for sprain fractures. The vala or soft ripe fruit is eaten by the villagers even on an empty stomach.
It is a laxative. It helps to ciear the bowels and to digest the food. Vala is given to children suffering from bronchitis. The vala bulbs are kept in dew, dipped in bees’Honey and early in the morning patients are given the juice.
They are given one bulb every morning to be taken on empty stomach. Vala and varaka are now available as canned fruit.
The Waraka tree has a different medicinal value. Waraka barks are specially used for sprains. The Waraka leaves are dried, powdered and poured like coffee .This coffee is used by diabetic patients. Pound well the ripe leaves (of Jak tree). Fri it in gingelly oil. Take and diabetes will undoubtedly vanish forthwith. The dosage is two to three tablespoonsfull Twice a day before meals. One can hardly imagine that so simple a remedy could have such market results on this diseases. It look too simple a remedy to cure so formidable a diseases but the fact that it is mentioned in a standard work on medicine, shows that has been an effective remedy,"Page 85
HERBAL FOOD and MEDICINES IN SRI LANKA-Dr Seel Fernando
Read more:
"Jak (Artocarpus heterophyllus) has two varieties. Soft(Vala) and Hrd (Waraka).The waraka or hard Jack is more popular than soft. The bark is used mainly for medicinal purposes. It is widely used for sprain fractures. The vala or soft ripe fruit is eaten by the villagers even on an empty stomach.
It is a laxative. It helps to ciear the bowels and to digest the food. Vala is given to children suffering from bronchitis. The vala bulbs are kept in dew, dipped in bees’Honey and early in the morning patients are given the juice.
They are given one bulb every morning to be taken on empty stomach. Vala and varaka are now available as canned fruit.
The Waraka tree has a different medicinal value. Waraka barks are specially used for sprains. The Waraka leaves are dried, powdered and poured like coffee .This coffee is used by diabetic patients. Pound well the ripe leaves (of Jak tree). Fri it in gingelly oil. Take and diabetes will undoubtedly vanish forthwith. The dosage is two to three tablespoonsfull Twice a day before meals. One can hardly imagine that so simple a remedy could have such market results on this diseases. It look too simple a remedy to cure so formidable a diseases but the fact that it is mentioned in a standard work on medicine, shows that has been an effective remedy,"Page 85
HERBAL FOOD and MEDICINES IN SRI LANKA-Dr Seel Fernando