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[[File:Starr-180406-0770-Cinnamomum camphora-leaves-DOFAW Arboretum Hilo-Hawaii (39560058730).jpg|thumb|right|''Karpura'', '' Cinnamomum camphora'']]
'''Karpura''', Cinnamomum camphora is a relatively fast-growing, evergreen tree with a dense crown; it usually grows from 10 - 15 metres tall, but can reach 40 metres. The bole, which usually branches from quite low down, can be up to 75cm in diameter. The plant is grown commercially in China and Japan as a medicinal tree and also for its essential oil, though most camphor oil on the market nowadays is produced synthetically.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Improves digestive system}}, {{Uses|Inflammation}}, {{Uses|Decongestant}}, {{Uses|Cold and cough}}, {{Uses|Aphrodisiac}}, {{Uses|Arthritis}}
<ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Extract}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=karpoora, paccakarpura|ml=cutakkarpuram, karpooram|sa=candraprabha, himavaluka, karpurah, gandhadravya|ta=pachai karpooram, karpuram|te=candramu, gamburam, ghanasaramu, kappuramu, karpuramupacha karpooram|hi=kapur|en=Camphor tree}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
Tikta (Bitter), Katu (Pungent), Madhura (Sweet)
===Guna===
Laghu (Light), Rooksha (Dry)
===Veerya===
Sheeta (cold)
===Vipaka===
Katu (Pungent)
===Karma===
Pitta, Kapha
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|alternate| Leaves spirally arranged, glabrous, chartaceous to sub-coriaceous, ovate-elliptic to elliptic to subovate-elliptic, 1-5 x 3-10 cm, base acute or tapered-cuneate, both surfaces minutely reticulate or above smooth; main nerves slender. Petiole slender, 2-4 cm long.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|axillary panicles|greenish white||Panicles axillary, slender, glabrous, many-flowered, up to 10 cm long with few short branches. Pedicels 1-2 mm, obconical. Tepals ovate, acutish, fleshy, c. 2 mm. Stamens 1.5 mm long; anthers broad; inner anthers truncate, upper cells smaller, latrorse; gland large attached to the basal part of the filament. Staminodes stipitate. Style as long as the ovary with peltate triquetrous stigma.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|A berry|5-10 mm in diameter|Fruit globose, slightly fleshy, 5-10 mm in diameter, seated on a shallow, thin cup, 3-5 mm in diameter at the apex, 1-2 mm deep, the basal part fleshy, obconical, usually not differentiated from the obconical pedicel, together 5-7 mm long.||}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Sub tropical area}}
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Starr-180406-0744-Cinnamomum camphora-leaf-DOFAW Arboretum Hilo-Hawaii (26498119777).jpg
File:Camphor Laurel.jpg
File:Camphor Laural flower (5066893753).jpg
File:Camphor Grove Sha Tau Kok.jpg
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Uses">[https://www.planetayurveda.com/library/karpura-cinnamomum-camphora "Uses"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2, N. Sasidharan "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Vernacular names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* https://easyayurveda.com/2014/12/08/camphor-benefits-dose-research-side-effects/
* https://www.ayurtimes.com/cinnamomum-camphora/
* http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Cinnamomum+camphora
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Tree]]
'''Karpura''', Cinnamomum camphora is a relatively fast-growing, evergreen tree with a dense crown; it usually grows from 10 - 15 metres tall, but can reach 40 metres. The bole, which usually branches from quite low down, can be up to 75cm in diameter. The plant is grown commercially in China and Japan as a medicinal tree and also for its essential oil, though most camphor oil on the market nowadays is produced synthetically.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Improves digestive system}}, {{Uses|Inflammation}}, {{Uses|Decongestant}}, {{Uses|Cold and cough}}, {{Uses|Aphrodisiac}}, {{Uses|Arthritis}}
<ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Extract}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=karpoora, paccakarpura|ml=cutakkarpuram, karpooram|sa=candraprabha, himavaluka, karpurah, gandhadravya|ta=pachai karpooram, karpuram|te=candramu, gamburam, ghanasaramu, kappuramu, karpuramupacha karpooram|hi=kapur|en=Camphor tree}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
Tikta (Bitter), Katu (Pungent), Madhura (Sweet)
===Guna===
Laghu (Light), Rooksha (Dry)
===Veerya===
Sheeta (cold)
===Vipaka===
Katu (Pungent)
===Karma===
Pitta, Kapha
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|alternate| Leaves spirally arranged, glabrous, chartaceous to sub-coriaceous, ovate-elliptic to elliptic to subovate-elliptic, 1-5 x 3-10 cm, base acute or tapered-cuneate, both surfaces minutely reticulate or above smooth; main nerves slender. Petiole slender, 2-4 cm long.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|axillary panicles|greenish white||Panicles axillary, slender, glabrous, many-flowered, up to 10 cm long with few short branches. Pedicels 1-2 mm, obconical. Tepals ovate, acutish, fleshy, c. 2 mm. Stamens 1.5 mm long; anthers broad; inner anthers truncate, upper cells smaller, latrorse; gland large attached to the basal part of the filament. Staminodes stipitate. Style as long as the ovary with peltate triquetrous stigma.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|A berry|5-10 mm in diameter|Fruit globose, slightly fleshy, 5-10 mm in diameter, seated on a shallow, thin cup, 3-5 mm in diameter at the apex, 1-2 mm deep, the basal part fleshy, obconical, usually not differentiated from the obconical pedicel, together 5-7 mm long.||}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Sub tropical area}}
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Starr-180406-0744-Cinnamomum camphora-leaf-DOFAW Arboretum Hilo-Hawaii (26498119777).jpg
File:Camphor Laurel.jpg
File:Camphor Laural flower (5066893753).jpg
File:Camphor Grove Sha Tau Kok.jpg
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Uses">[https://www.planetayurveda.com/library/karpura-cinnamomum-camphora "Uses"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2, N. Sasidharan "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Vernacular names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* https://easyayurveda.com/2014/12/08/camphor-benefits-dose-research-side-effects/
* https://www.ayurtimes.com/cinnamomum-camphora/
* http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Cinnamomum+camphora
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Tree]]
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