Kasthuri Dehi
Scientific name: Triphasia trifolia
Family name: RUTACEAE
English name: Lime berry
Local name: Kasthuri dehi
Description: Shrub up to 3 m tall or a small tree. Compound leaves with 3 elliptic leaflets with the terminal leaflet twice as large as the lateral leaflets. Pair of spines at the base of the leaf petiole. Flowers Fragrant, white, 3 oblanceolate petals, reflexed at the tip, produced throughout the year in small clusters of 2-3 in the leaf axils. Fruits Reddish orange to bright red, fleshy, round to ellipsoid (1-1.5 cm long). Fruit contains 1-3 seeds embedded within a mucilaginous pulp.
Status: Only under cultivation
Ayurvedic Treatments- Diarrhea
Cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection
Dysentery
Stomach ailment
PARTS USED IN TREATMENT:
Leaves
RELATED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES:
Antimicrobial
