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'''Talah''' is a tall palm tree with fan shaped leaves found abundantly all along the Eastern Coast of India. The fruits are valued for their sweet jelly like pulp and inflorescence stalks which yield delicious neera.
 
'''Talah''' is a tall palm tree with fan shaped leaves found abundantly all along the Eastern Coast of India. The fruits are valued for their sweet jelly like pulp and inflorescence stalks which yield delicious neera.
  

Revision as of 11:59, 13 April 2019

File:Borassus flabellifer fruit on the tree.JPG|thumb|right|Talah, Borassus flabellifer]] Talah is a tall palm tree with fan shaped leaves found abundantly all along the Eastern Coast of India. The fruits are valued for their sweet jelly like pulp and inflorescence stalks which yield delicious neera.

Uses

Liver diseases, Spleen diseases, Inflammation, General debility, Acidity, Diarrhea, Cough and cold [1]

Parts Used

Flower, Roots, Fruits

Chemical Composition

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada kari thaale, thaatiningu,
Hindi tad
Malayalam ampana, carim-pana, carimpana, eta
Tamil nonkupanai, nungu, panaimaram
Telugu karatalamu, karathaalamu, naamathaadu, tatichettu
Marathi NA
Gujarathi NA
Punjabi NA
Kashmiri NA
Sanskrit taladrumah, talah, trinaraja
English Palmyrah palm

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Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

Rasa

Madhura (Sweet)

Guna

Guru (Heavy), Snigdha (Slimy)

Veerya

Sheeta (Cold)

Vipaka

Madhura (Sweet)

Karma

Vata, Pitta

Prabhava

Habit

Tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature
Simple Palmate Leaves plicately multifid; leaflets 60-80, induplicate, apex acuminate; petiole stout, spinous, base broad, split. Spadices interfoliar, large, dioecious, branched; peduncle sheathed with open spathes.

[3]

Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
Unisexual Male flowers small, clustered; bracts scaly, secund, overlapping. Sepals 3, oblong, to 3 mm. Petals 3, obovate-spathulate, to 2 mm. Stamens 6; anthers to 1 mm; pistillodes small, bristly. Female flowers large, globose. Perianth fleshy, accrescent. Sepals reniform, imbricate. Petals smaller, convolute. Ovary globose, entire or 3-or-1-cleft, 3-or 4-celled; ovules basal; stigmas 3, sessile, recurved; staminodes 6-9.

Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
Drupe 13 cm across Fruits globose, black when ripe with 1-3 compressed pyrenes. {{{6}}}

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

How to plant/cultivate

Season to grow

Soil type

Propagation

Commonly seen growing in areas

Tropical area, Coastal area.

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References

  1. "Uses"
  2. "Common names"
  3. [FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER 2.0, N.SASIDHARAN "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]

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