Plant Profile
Herb descriptions
Botany
Binomial nomenclature
Excoecaria agallocha
Scientific Name and Description
Excoecaria agallocha L.
Herb Family
Plant type
Tree
Plant Synonyms
Plant Synonyms
Antidesma agallocha
Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular
| English | blind-your-eye(s) |
| Hindi | gangiva, tejbala, Geva गेवा |
| Kannada | haaro gida, hara, haro, harogida, kamate, kammatta, thilla, tilla |
| Malayalam | cametti, cammetti, kaduvapal, kametti, karmatti, karmmatti, katappala, katuvapala, komatti, phungali |
| Marathi | geva, hurashi, kharo uro, phungali, suran, surind, surund, uro, Kheera खेर |
| Sanskrit | agaru, gangwa, gaourai, geria, tilvakah, ugaru |
| Tamil | agadil, agi, akakkolli, akati, akil 1, akkolli, ambalatti, ambalavirukkam, ampalatti, ampalavirukkam, analpali, anti, antivirutcam, atiyakuttan, atiyakuttanmaram, atkolli, atkollimaram, cavipputtillai, cikaram, citamparam, conkam, cuvetam, cuvetamatiyakuttan, elumpuccankam, kalecam, kaleyam, kaleyavirutcam, kalintakitam, kalintakitavirutcam, kampetti, kanalpali, kanna,karacatam, kokkumeni, kopitakam, kopitakamaram, kuttanam, makatticceti, mukamvinkimaram, mukamvinkiviruksam, nakapani, namanaiviratti, neruppumaram, parivintu, parivintumaram, paruvi, paruvirutcam, perundillai, petaram, ponnampalam, ponnampalavirutcam, tevaputi, thilai maram, thillai, tilappakam, tilappakava, tilla-chedi, tillai, tillaivirutcam, tilvam, tiritomam, tirucati, tuti2, uttiratcam, vanattilai, varivanam |
| Telugu | chilla, cilla, tella, thella chettu, thilla, tilla, tillachettu |
| Common Names | Blind-Your-Eye Mangrove, Milkwood Mangrove, blinding tree,buta buta tree,poisonfish tree, river poison tree |
Plants Medicinal Value
Medicinal Systems
Ayurved
Siddha
Folk
Herb usable parts
Stem
Bark
Ethnopharmacology use
Excoecaria agallocha L
Habit - Tree
Parts used - Flower, root, oil
Application - Eye diseases; Tooth ache; intestinal worms; Joint pain; leprosy
Treatment - General
References - Sivalingam et al. 2016
References
Literature
Literature
Sivalingam et al. 2016
FLORA OF KARNATAKA VOL-2 Author - C.J SALDHANA
The Flora of the Gulf of Mannar Author - P. Daniel & P. Umamaheswari
Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2 Author - N.P.Singh, P.Lakshminarasimhan, S.Karthikeyan & P.V. Prasanna
The Flora of Orissa Vol III Author - Saxena H.O.,Brahmam M.
Published 11 February 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.18.4.1-112
The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Department of AYUSH
Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)
Citations
Herb citations
Excoecaria agallocha. (2024, March 23). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excoecaria_agallocha