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Botanical Name:
Azadirachta indica
Neem consists of dried root bark of Azadirachta indica A.
Juss. (Synonym Melia azadirachta Linn), Family Meliaceae
Common Name(s) in English & Indian Languages
Sanskrit: Arista, Picumarda
Assamese: Mahanim
Bengali: Nim, Nimgach
English: Margosa Tree
Guajarati: Limba, Limbado, Limado, Kohumba
Hindi: Nim, Nimba
Kannada: Nimba, Bevu, Oilevevu, Kahibevu, Bevinama
Malayalam: Veppu, Aryaveppu, Nimbam, Veppa
Marathi: Balantanimba, Limba, Bakayan, Nim, Kadunimb
Oriya: Nimba
Punjabi: Nimba, Bakan, Nim
Tamil: Vemmu, Veppu, Arulundi, Veppan
Telugu: Vemu, Vepa
Urdu: Neem
Botanical description:
This is a large tree up to 20m tall. Leaves 20-30 cm long,
crowded at the end of branches, alternate, exstipulate
imparipinnate, lenceolete, closely clustered towards the
ends of branches. Serrate margine, green, oblique at base,
acuminate at apex lateral ones sessile to sub sessile
terminal one with long petiolule upto 4cm. flowers white
upto 0.8 mm diameter. Inflorescence – axillary cymose
panicles ore present. Calyx lobes obtuse, petal upto 5mm
long, linear,oblong, obtuse at apex, drupe up to 1cm long,
oblong, yellow when ripe & green when ripe. Seeds ellipsoid,
catyledons thick, fleshy & oily. Bark-thick, rough, brown in
colour, longitudinally obliquely furrowed. Internally
starchy white, laminated with characteristic smell of neem &
bitter in taste
Parts used:
Roots, bark
Major chemical constituent:
Tetranortriterpenoids, Margocin, Nimbidiol, Nimbolicin,
Azadirinin
Therapeutic uses:
• Inflammation (Sotha)
• Tastelessness (Aruci)
• Asthma (Svasa)
• Emesis (Chardi)
• Burning sensation (Daha)
• Non-healing ulcer (Dusta Vrana)
• Malabsrption syndrome (Grahani)
• Fever (Jvara)
• Cough (Kasa)
• Worm infestation (Krmiroga)
• Disease due to kapha dosa (Kaphavikara)
• Diseases of skin (Kustha)
• Increased frequency and turbidity of urine (Prameha)
• Bleeding disorder (Raktapitta)
• Thirst (Trsna)
• Nausea (Hrllasa)
• Disorder of liver (Yakrtvikara) |
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