Gaub
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Common name: Gaub गाब (Hindi), தும்பிகா Tumbika (Tamil), Temburi (Marathi), Panancca (Malayalam), Bandadamara (Telugu), Holitupare (Kannada)
Botanical name: Diospyros malabarica
Family: Ebenaceae (ebony family) Synonyms: Diospyros peregrina
Gab is an evergreen tree with a spreading crown. The leaves are long and glossy. The flowers have a tough texture and are creamish in color, in clusters of 3-6.
Medicinal uses: Gab is the Tinduka of Sanskrit writers; its bark is described in the Nighantas as a good application to boils and tumours, and the juice of the fresh bark as useful in bilious fever. The fruit when unripe is said to be cold. light, and astringent, and when ripe beneficial in blood diseases, gonorrhoea and leprosy.
