Catunaregam spinosa

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Emetic nut tree is large deciduous armed shrub up 9.0m in height with strong straight spines, horizontal rigud branches and dark brown or gray rough scaly bark; leaves simple, usually fascicled on the suppressed branches, obovate and on never beneath, main nerves 6-10 pairs flowers at first white, later turning yellow, fragrant, solitary or 2-3 together at theends of short leaf bearing branch lets fruits globose or broadly ovoid, smooth or obscurely longitudinally ribbed berries yellow when rope, crowned with the large calyx limb, seeds , may angular embedded in the pulp.
The bark and fruit of Emetic nut tree is used for fever, diarrhoea, dysentery, vitiated conditions of vata,pain, sprains, inflammations, helminthiasis, leprosy, skin diseases, wounds, ulcers, tumours, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, cough, asthma, bronchitis, constipation and fever.