Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants

Corypha umbraculifera Linn

Family: Aracaceae
Genus: Corypha
Botanical name: Corypha umbraculifera Linn
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Katakali, Tali, Sreetala, Visalapatra, Ekapatraphala, Karalika
English: Fan palm, large palmyra, Tali-pot
Hindi: Bhajarbettu
Malayalam: Kudappana

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Fan palm is one of the largest palms in the world; individual specimens have reached heights of up to 25 m, with stems up to 1.3 m in diameter.] It is a fan palm, with large, palmate leaves up to 5 m in diameter, with a petiole up to 4 m, and up to 130 leaflets. The talipot palm bears the largest inflorescence of any plant, 6-8 m long, consisting of one to several million small flowers borne on a branched stalk that forms at the top of the trunk (the titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum, from the family Araceae, has the largest unbranched inflorescence, and the species Rafflesia arnoldii has the world’s largest single flower). The talipot palm is monocarpic, flowering only once, when it is 30 to 80 years old. It takes about a year for the fruit to mature, producing thousands of round, yellow-green fruit 3-4 cm diameter, each containing a single seed. The plant dies after fruiting.
Kudappana is used against the poison of viper and keeps the Kidney working in the victims of viper. (Decrease the creatinine below 1.4)