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Bixa orellana is a small but fairly fast-growing evergreen shrub or small tree. It grows from 2 - 8 metres tall. The bole can be 10 - 30cm in diameter. This is a plant that is very important to the lives of local people, providing as it does a very wide range of foods and materials.

Uses

Intestinal worms, Lower fever, Improves digestion, Dysentery, Vomiting during pregnancy, Throat infections, Muscular ache, Fevers, Colic.

Parts Used

Seeds, stem, leaves, Root.

Chemical Composition

Bixa orellana L. has been traditionally used in Central and South America to treat a number of ailments, including internal inflammation, and in other tropical countries like Malaysia as treatment for gastric ulcers and stomach discomfort.^[1]

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit
English

Properties

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

Dravya

Rasa

Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Habit

Evergreen tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature

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Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
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Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Seeds, Cuttings in sand.

How to plant/cultivate

Annatto requires a frost-free, warm, humid climate. It can grow at elevations from sea level up to 2,200 metres in tropical to subtropical climates where a mean annual rainfall of 2,500 - 5,000mm is distributed throughout the year.^[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

Coastal and inland thickets, Tropical forests.

Photo Gallery

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References

External Links

[chemical_composition-1] Chemical constituents

[Leaf-2] ["morphology"]

[How_to_plant.2Fcultivate-3] Cultivation

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 '''Bixa orellana''' is a small but fairly fast-growing evergreen shrub or small tree. It grows from 2 - 8 metres tall. The bole can be 10 - 30cm in diameter. This is a plant that is very important to the lives of local people, providing as it does a very wide range of foods and materials.
 ==Uses==
-{{Uses|Intestinal worms}}, {{Uses|Lowers fever}}, {{Uses|Improves digestion}}, {{Uses|Dysentery}}, {{Uses|Vomiting during pregnancy}}, {{Uses|Throat infections}}, {{Uses|Muscular aches}}, {{Uses|Fevers}}, {{Uses|Colic}}.
+{{Uses|Intestinal worms}}, {{Uses|Lower fever}}, {{Uses|Improves digestion}}, {{Uses|Dysentery}}, {{Uses|Vomiting during pregnancy}}, {{Uses|Throat infections}}, {{Uses|Muscular ache}}, {{Uses|Fevers}}, {{Uses|Colic}}.
 ==Parts Used==