Cinnamomum tamala

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Common name : Indian Bay Leaf, Indian cassia, Indian cassia bark, Dalchini,tejpatta

Taxonomical ID : 397098

Vernacular Names

1. Assamese : Mahaneem. Maha-neem 2. Bengali : Neem 3. English : Indian Lilac, Margosa, Margosa tree, Neem,Neem tree 4. Gujarati : Limba 5. Hindi : Neem 6. Irula : Veeppa, maram 7. Kannada : Bevu/ Kirubevu, Turakabevu 8. Malayalam : Ariyaveppu, Ayurveppu, Kaippanveppu , Nimbam, Vembu, Veppu 9. Marathi : Nimbay 10. Tamil : Sengumaru, Vembu, Veppa, Veppai 11. Telugu : Vepa Source : FRLHT’s ENVIS
Botanical Description

Azadirachta indica is a tropical evergreen of the MELIACEAE family that grows up to 25 m high. It has rough dark brown bark with wide longitudinal fissures separated by flat ridges. The leaves are compound, imparipinnate, each comprising 5-15 leaflets that are arranged in alternate pairs with terminal leaflets. The compound leaves are themselves alternating with one another. The thin, lanceolate leaflets measure about 6 cm long and 2 cm broad. It bears many flowered panicles, mostly in the leaf-axils. The sepals are ovate and about 1 cm long with sweet scented white oblanceolate petals. It produces yellow drupes that are ellipsoid and glabrous, 12-20 cm long. Source : Medicinal plants of the world: chemical constituents, traditional and modem medicinal uses by Ivan Ross (Volume 2 )
Conservation Status

Least concern source : IUCN
Medicinal uses

Hot water extract of the bark is taken orally by the adult female as a tonic and emmenagogue. The hot water extract of the dried fixed oil is taken orally as an emmenagogue. Anthraquinone fraction of the dried flower, fruit and leaf is taken orally for leprosy. Hot water extract of the flower and leaf is taken orally as an antihistorical remedy, and is used externally to treat wounds. The dried flowers are taken orally for diabetes. Hot water extract of the dried fruit is used for piles and externally for skin diseases and ulcers. Hot water extract of the entire plant is taken orally as an anthelmintic, an insecticide and a purgative. Juices of the bark of Andrographis paniculate, Azadirachta indica and Tinospora cordifolia are taken orally as a treatment for filariasis. Hot water extract of the bark is taken with water, orally before breakfast, for leprosy. The extract is also taken for fever and diabetes, and as a tonic, refrigerant, anthelmintic and antiperiodic. The fresh fruit is used externally for leprosy. Fruit, leaf and root, ground and mixed with dried ginger and "trifala", a preparation consisting of the powdered fruit of Terminalia bellerica (Gaertn.) Roxb., T. Chebula Retz, and Emblica officinalis Gaertn., is taken orally with lukewarm water to treat common fevers. Leaf juice is administered by intravenous infusion for chronic skin diseases, and is taken orally as an anthelmintic. Source : Medicinal Plants of the World

S.no	Phytochemical Name	Phytochemical ID	Synonyms	Part
1	Cinnamaldehyde	CID_637511	Cinnamic aldehyde
2	3,4,5,7-tetrahydroxyflavone	CID_44184106	N.A	N.A
3	3,3,4,5,7- pentahydroxyflavone	CID_145707081	Quercetin methylglucamine	N.A
4	kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside	CID_5318767	Nicotiflorin NICOTIFLOROSIDE	N.A
	quercetin-3-O-sophoroside	CID_5282166	Baimaside
7	α-pinene	CID_258567152	N.A	N.A
8	myrcene	CID_31253	Beta-Myrcene	N.A
9	camphene	CID_6616	N.A	N.A
10	P-cymene	CID_7463	4-Isopropyltoluene	N.A
11	eugenol	CID_3314	4-Allyl-2-methoxyphenol 4-Allylguaiacol Eugenic acid	N.A
12	Methyl ether eugenol	CID_
13	Eugenol acetate	CID_7136	EUGENYL ACETATE Acetyleugenol	N.A
14	Furanogermenone	CID_6439596	N.A	Leaf oil
15	β- caryophyllene	CID_134971569	N.A	Leaf oil
16	Germacerene d	N.A	N.A	Leaf oil
17	curcumenol	CID_167812	(+)-Curcumenol	Leaf oil
18	curzerenone	CID_3081930	N.A	N.A
19	Furanodiene	CID_636458	Isofuranodiene	Leaf oil
20	linalool	CID_6549	N.A	N.A
21	(E)-cinnamaldehyde	CID_
22	Hydrocinnamyl acetate	CID_31226	3-Phenylpropyl acetate	Oil
23	(Z)-cinnamic acid	CID_5372954	(Z)-Cinnamic acid (Z)-3-phenylacrylic acid	N.A
24	β-caryphyllene	N.A	N.A	N.A
25	(Z)- β-ocimene	CID_348285467	N.A	N.A
26	myrcene	CID_31253	beta-Myrcene	N.A
27	α-pinene	CID_
28	β-sabinene	N.A	N.A	N.A
29	Germacrene A	CID_9548706	Germacrene a	N.A
30	α-gurjunene	CID_250078201	N.A	N.A
31	laempferol	N.A	N.A
32	Quercetrin	CID_5280459	Quercetin 3-rhamnoside	N.A
33	Quercetin	CID_5280343	Meletin Sophoretin Quercetine	N.A
34	α-phellandrene	CID_319223196	N.A	N.A

All extracts were able to scavenge free radicals in which strong antioxidant activity was found in methanolic extract of young leaves, and its IC50 value was estimated as (67.19±14.96 μg/mL) at a concentration range of 31.25-500 μg/mL.

AMMPDB VER.1.1

Cinnamomum tamala

Common name : Indian Bay Leaf, Indian cassia, Indian cassia bark, Dalchini,tejpatta

Source : Thakur et al.,2021