Chorikota ചൊറികൊട്ട / കൊട്ടക്ക

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Chorikota is tall semi-deciduous tree, sometimes shrubby. Leaves 10-15 cm long, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, entire or slightly and irregularly toothed. Flowers small, yellow, in terminal panicles. Fruits globose or slightly obovoid, about 10 mm across.
The plant is used in indigestion, eczema, itch, small-pox, typhoid fever, dysentery and syphilitic ulceration of the mouth. Tripuras in Chittagong Hill Tracts use leaves of this plant along with turmeric and shell of snail for the treatment of jaundice.