Murraya koenigii (L.) Spreng.
Curry Leaf / Daun kari (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree up to 4 m tall. Leaves are pinnately compound, alternately and spirally arranged with 9-31 pairs of smooth leaflets with glandular dots on the surface. The leaves are fragrant when bruised. Leaflet blades are ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, oblique at base with irregularly toothed or entire margin and pinnate venation. Inflorescence a terminal cyme. Flowers are whitish, tubular, many-flowered and aromatic. Fruit a subglobose bluish-black berry with
Decoction of stems and leaves are consumed orally to reduce fever, gastric pain and parkinsonism (neurological disorders that cause movement problems). The whole herb is made into a decoction and applied topically to skin to relieve itchiness (locally known as
It prefers fertile, moist but well- drained soil under sunlight to partial shade. It is commonly found in dry to moist forests.
Seeds, stem and root cutting.
Native in the Indo-
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