OLEUM CAJUPUTI: A REMEDY FOR FLATULENCE


 OLEUM CAJUPUTI

BOTANICAL NAME:  Melalenca cajuputi

FAMILY:  Myrtaceae

COMMON NAMES: Cajuput, White samet.

DESCRIPTION:  Cajaput is an evergreen shrub, or more usually a single –stemmed tree with a fairly dense and wide crown that is somewhat silvery in appearance . It grows up to 25 meters tall.

DISTRIBUTION: Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia.

PART USED:   A volatile oil obtained by the steam  distillation of  leaves  and twigs. It is a colorless, yellow, or green liquid. Odor agrreable and camphoraceous, taste bitter, aromatic. It is highly volatile. Freely soluble in alcohol. The leaves are alternate, tapering at both ends. Flowers are white or cream colored , in dense spikes. Fruits are woody, cup-shaped capsules.

HOMOEOPATHIC USES

A remedy for flatulence and affections of tongue. Sense of enlargement. Profuse sweating. Gout. Neuralgic affections, not inflammatory. Nervous dyspnoea.

POTENCY:  First to third potency.

oil is traded internationa

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