Childs Amulet Tree

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Child’s amulet tree is a famous, moderate-sized, evergreen tree, growing up to 12 m in height. It has pendant branches and dark grey bark having horizontal lenticels. Leaves are simple, alternately arranged, dark green, shiny, elliptic-oblong, distantly serrated. Male flowers, with short stalks, in rounded axillary clusters, female flowers 1-3 in leaf axil. Fruits ellipsoid or rounded drupes, white velvety; seed normally one, stone pointed, rugose, very hard.
The leaves are refrigerant and procreant and are useful in catarrh, fever and sterility.
The seeds are sweet, acrid, procreant, refrigerant, ophthalmic, laxative, anti-inflammatory, aphrodisiac and diuretic and are useful in vitiated conditions of vata and pitta, burning sensation, hyperdipsia, ophthalmopathy, constipation, elephantiasis, inflammations, strangury, habitual abortion and sterility.