Lasora

BOTANICAL NAME:

• Cordia latifolia Roxb

FAMILY:

• Boraginaceae
• Cordiaceae

SYNONYM(S):

• Cordia dichotoma Forst
• Cordia oblique Wild
• Cordia myxa Roxb.

URDU NAME:

• Lasora

REGIONAL NAME:                   

• Bengali: Bahubara, Bohari, Buhal, Chhotobohnari
• Persian: Sapistan, Suspistan
• Hindi: Bhairala, Bhokar, Chhotalasora, Gondi, Lasora
• Pashto: Lasora
• Sanskrit: Bahuvara, hlesh-Malaka, Selu
• Sindhi: Giduri, Lesuri
• Arabic: Dabak, Dabk
• Punjabi: Laswara

UNANI/TIBBI NAME:

• Sapistan, Dabak, Babak

ENGLISH NAME:

• Sebes tan Plum

HABITAT:

• Mirpur, Billawar

DESCRIPTION:

• A small to medium sized tree with glabrous branchlets
• Leaves glabrous, entire or dentate are elliptic lanceolate to broadly ovate
• Flowers are small, white in colour in glabrous cymes
• Fruit 1-2 cm long shining, yellowish brown, pink or nearly black when ripe
• Seed one

PART USED:

• Fruit

TASTE:

• Sweet

TEMPERAMENT:

• Moderate 1°

PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE:

• Flowers appear between January to April and the fruits from May to July.

PROCEDURE & TIME OF COLLECTION:

• The fruits are picked and dried when fairly ripe.

CONSTITUENTS:

• Pulp-Sugar
• Mucilage Bark- Cathartin

SUBSTITUTES:

• Khatmi/Marshmallow (Al thaea officinalis Linn.)

ACTIONS AND USES IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:

Pharmacological action:

• Anthelmintic
• Purgative
• Demulcent
• Expectorant
• Pectoral
• Diuretic
• Astringent

Therapeutic uses:

• Biliousness,
• Chronic fever
• Diseases of the chest, urinary tract, spleen
• For joint pain
• Is also useful in bronchitis
• Pneumonia and
• Phthisis

DOSES:

• 9-15 g

CORRECTIVES:

• Unnab/Jujube (Zizyphus vulgarus Linn.)
• Gul-e-Surkh/Rose (Rosa darmascene Mill)

IMPORTANT UNANI FORMULATIONS:

• Laooq-e-Sapi stan
• Laooq-e-Sapistan  khiyar Shambri
• Sufuf Habis
• Dayaquza