Eurycoma longifolia Jack
Long Jack / Tongkat ali/Langir siam/Pasak bumi/Kayu raja/Petagar ali (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
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Terrestrial shrub or small tree of 10 m tall. Leaves are pinnately compound, leathery and forming a rosette from the stem. There are 30-40 leaflets for each leaf that are alternately or oppositely arranged, adaxially dark green and abaxially mid-green. Leaflet blades are oblong lanceolate with entire margin. Stems are erect and often unbranched. Flowers are pink-red- purple, bell-shaped and covered with fine hairs. Inflorescence borne at leaf axils. Fruit an ovoid reddish-brown
In South east Asia, the juice from young shoots is used against herpes, while the ash of burned Nipa material is used against toothache and headache. The flower sheaths can also be made into an aromatic tea. The plant exhibits
It prefers moist but well-drained loamy soil under sunlight and partial shade. It is commonly found in undisturbed lowland forests, on hillsides and on ridges.
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Native at Sri Lanka and India and widely spread to Indo-China, southern China, Taiwan, Thailand, Moluccas and New Guinea throughout the Malesian region to northern Australia.Java bruCea
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