Kheythay
Common name: Glycosmis pentaphylla
Scientific name: Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.) DC.
Family Name: RUTACEAE
Other names: Mother-in-law, Mother-in-law, Kao Chuen-in-law, Ton Chomchuen, Son-in-law, Chom Chuen-in-law, rubber-in-law, water inlet (under), water rake, rice water, rock, water (Chonburi), Som Chuen, Si Chom Chuen, rice, Poison, Nakarat, Phuttaraksa (Sukhothai), Prayong Yai (Bangkok) Pork fat (Prachuap Khiri Khan)
Botanical characteristics:
Shrub, semi-woody, small, 3-6 meters tall, smooth, gray-brown bark. The trunk surface is scattered into a white circle. Leaves low branches from the base of the tree with dense leaves found in sparse forests. Flowering around February to April fruiting around March
Blade A single leaf Spear shape, oval, opposite or semi-opposite, 3-5 cm wide, 10-20 cm long.
Trunk It’s square.
flower The peduncle flowers are branched 10-30 cm long, densely packed with small white flowers and 12-15 clusters of flowers in axillary or at the end of the branches. Petals 5 white, size 4-5 x 2-2.5 mm, surface with glands, oval, inverted, calyx 5, basal lobe connected together, 5 lobes, 1-1.5 mm long. Semi-oval pointed shape downy hair at the end. The top has five large cloves and several small subsets. Have glands at the end stem very short. Pistils arranged in circles. The center of the flower core is a rod of stamens. Ovary size: 2-2.5 mm. wide, ovate, male 8-10 stems, anthers, 2-3 mm. long.
Results Fresh fruit, round shape, small, 1-1.2 cm wide, 1-1.8 cm long, smooth skin, solid green when ripe, pink, clear, juicy, sweet in taste.
Seed Single seed, spherical shape.
Benefits:
Thai drug book
Drunken taste root Neutralize insect bites Apply wound that is inflamed, cure fever, cure blister skin disease, cure typhoid fever, widen the abscess to collapse, cure milk abscess, cut the milk root abscess. Inhibits certain viruses.
The bark of the tree, hot drunk, solve external and internal abscesses.
Wood scramble to cure boils outside and inside, cure snake venom, expel milk.
Flowers and fruit, hot drunkenness to treat scabies.
Not specified the part used for throwing poison to cure external and internal abscesses, cure snake venom, expel milk.
Bengali drug book
Uses juice from leaves mixed with sugar Eat on an empty stomach to remove roundworms. Cure fever, cure liver disease, ground leaves mixed with ginger Treat inflamed skin, blister, or itchy skin. Root is used to reduce fever.