Bamboo Plant Dealers in Madurai

• Botanical Name: Bambusa bambos
• English Name: Spiny or Thorny Bamboo.
• Common Name: Moongil; Moongiluppu.
• Active Ingredient: Cyanogenic glucoside—taxiphyllin, Ilicious crystalline substances.
• Uses: Leaf bud and young shoots—used in dysmenorrhoea; externally in ulcerations. Leaf—emmenagogue, antileprotic, febrifuge, bechic; used in haemoptysis. Stem and leaf—blood purifier (used in leucoderma and inflammatory conditions). Root—poisonous. Burn
• Description: The starch obtained from Maranta arundinacea Linn., Marantaceae, is also used as Bamboo-manna (known as Koovai Kizhangu, Kookaineer and Araroottu Kizangu).

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