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A small genus of trees represented in India by P.pinnata, distributed fromSeychelles and India to northern Australia and Fiji in the east.The tree is considered to be a native of western chats and is chiefly foundalong the banks of streams and rivers or near sea coast in beach and tidalforests. It is not exacting in its soil and climatic requirements and grows indry places far in the interior, up to an elevation of 1,000 m.The root and bark are hot, bitter, acrid; anthelmintic, alexipharmic; useful indiseases of the eye, the vagina, the skin; good for tumours, piles, wounds, ulcers, itching, ascites, enlargements of the spleen and the abdomen, urinary discharges; cure biliousness, vata and kapha . The sprouts arestomachic, alexiteric, anthelmintic; improve the appetite; cure kapha , vata , piles, skin diseases, inflammatio

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