A morus is moderate-sized monoecious tree, 3 to 6 meters high, with reddish or yellowish brown, smooth bark, marked with long horizontal lenticels. Leaves are ovate, 5 to 20 centimeters long, 2.5 to 8 centimeters wide, with tapering pointed tips, and 3-nerved, heart-shaped base, sharply-toothed margins, sometimes deeply 3-lobed, of hairy texture when young, rough when mature. It is a Fruit of famous tree about 3-4 inches long, it has two types 1) Toot Safed & 2) Toot Siyah. It is also called Shahtoot. Native to China; cultivated in Punjab,
Ficus benghalensis, a genus of family Urticaceae is a tropical, deciduous, evergreen tree with more than 800 species and about 40 genera. F. benghalensis is known as common name Bargad and cultivated as a Garden tree or Spiritual tree. In Unani the aerial root and Latex are aphrodisiac, styptic, syphilis, biliousness, dysentery, inflammation of liver. A lot of pharmacological work has been scientifically carried out on various part of F. benghalensis but some other traditionally important therapeutically uses are also remaining to proof till now scientifically. The leaves of F. benghalensis is used as ulcer protective, leprosy and fever, inflammations (Ayurvedic). The milky juice is aphrodisiac, tonic, vulnerary, maturate also useful in piles, diseases of the nose, gonorrhea. As analgesic, antipyretic, anti-ulcerogenic, inflammatory bowel, antimicrobial, antidiabetic etc. The various chemical constituents present in F. benghalensis are Bengalenosides, flavanoids and leucocyanidin glycoside.
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