Ankenda
Scientific name: Acronychia pedunculata
Family name: RUTACEAE
English name: Claw flowered laurel
Local name: Ankenda
Sanskrit name: Ankota
Description: A small tree. Leaves simple; petiole up to 5 cm long; lateral nerves 3-7 pairs; blades 3.5-24 cm long, 2-8 cm wide. Inflorescences mostly 4-20 cm long. Flowers greenish-white, mostly 8-11 (rarely to 13) mm long . Fruits cream to tawny, drying brown; Endocarp thin; Seeds 3-7 mm long.
Status: Native
Edible parts: Fruit (Wild fruit)
Ayurvedic Treatments- Oedeama
Fractures
sores
Ulcers
Bruises
Skin diseases
Gastric pains
Scabies
PARTS USED IN TREATMENT:
Leaves
Bark
Flowers
Roots
RELATED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES:
Reduces aggravation of vatha, kapha and dosha
Purgative
