Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular
| Common name | chaulmoogra |
| Hindi | (कालमोगरा) Calmogara, Chalmogra, Chaulmoogra, Jangli badam |
| Kannada | Chalmogra yenne mara, Mirolhakai, Surti, Suranti, Toratti, Garudaphala |
| Malayalam | Kodi, Maravatty, Marotti, Nirvatta, Nirvetti |
| Marathi | Kadu Kawath |
| Sanskrit | Tuvaraka, Turveraka, Tuvrak, (कुष्टवैरी) Kushtavairi |
| Tamil | Maravetti, Maravattai, Marotti |
| Telugu | Niradi-vittulu |
The oil is semi-solid at room temperature with no odor. Gas–liquid chromatography analysis has shown the oil to contain the following fatty acids – hydnocarpic acid, chaulmoogric acid, gorlic acid, lower cyclic homologues, myristic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, palmitoleic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid and linolenic acid. The oil is unusual in not being made up of straight chain fatty acids but acids with a cyclic group at the end of the chain. The oil also contains 5′-methoxyhydnocarpin, an amphipathic weak acid, and isohydnocarpin.
The crude oil has a pale greenish-brown color, and can be easily purified into a white, watery oil containing three cyclopentene fatty acids.
Source: Wikipedia
Hydnocarpus wightianus Blume
Habit- Shrub
Parts used - Fruit, seed
Application - Boils; ulcers; sores; leprosy; rheumatic arthritis; diabetes; swelling and skin diseases
Treatment - General
References - Priya and Gopalan 2014
Literature
Citations
Hydnocarpus wightianus. (2024, July 5). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnocarpus_wightianus