Benefits and Usage:
Boosts stomach and liver strength. Aids digestion, improves metabolic power, raw wood apple acts as an astringent, effective for dysentery and diarrhea, stimulates appetite, soothing, heals intestinal ulcers. Ripe wood apple is a general tonic, improves appetite, mild laxative, effective for constipation. Relieves burning sensations in the body.
Raw and ripe wood apple is beneficial for digestive disorders, bleeding piles, bilious fever, palpitations, insomnia, thirst, edema, and spermatorrhea.
(Source: Disease and Botany (Vol 4-6), Author: Hakim M.A. Kalam Patwari, Publisher: Camruz Publications, Edition: July 2008, Page: 110)
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Ayurvedic Properties and Applications:
Properties of young wood apple: It has a pungent-bitter-astringent taste, hot potency, sharp, digestive stimulant, easy to digest, soothing, relieves wind, and eliminates phlegm.
Properties of raw wood apple: It has an astringent-sweet taste, heavy to digest, digestive stimulant, constipating, improves appetite, eliminates phlegm and bile. Relieves fever and diarrhea.