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Falsa

Falsa is highly sought in the hot summer months as its fruits can be made into a cool refreshing drink-falsa sharbat. It is a fruit of tropical to subtropical areas purple to almost black in colour. When gets ripen, is sweet to sour in taste, can withstand light frost.

Medicinal Uses

Unripe fruit: Relieves inflammation and is used to treat respiratory, heart and blood afflictions as well as in fevers.

Bark: Root bark is used in treating rheumatism, Soak the bark overnight and apply the pulp directly on to the affected area for skin problems bark infusion is used in treatment for diarrhoes.

Fruit: Astringent and stomachic and is Known to assist preventing coughs and colds, minefield of antioxidants and are useful in reducing cancer risk, removes headache, pimples, acidity leucorrhea, anaemia, burning sensations in the body and skin dryness.

Leaves: relieves all types of inflammations of skin and are utilized in skin eruptions, Soak leaves overnight and make a paste to apply on affected area as they are known to have antibiotic action, leaves are also used as cattle fodder

Juice: Employed since centuries to treat liver and gall bladder problems, as well as to purify blood and control blood pressure and cholesterol level, Normalizes heart rate and maintains blood pressure, diuretic, removes thirst, protects against heat stroke, vomiting, nausea.

Sharbat: is good to help sunburn victims to treat sunstroke.

Other Uses: Bark is used in purifying sugar cane juice in sugar processing, because the bark is mucilaginous.

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Wood of falsa tree: Fine grained, cream coloured, strong and flexible, and is used in making archer’s bows, spear handles, poles and baskets and harvested for fuel.