For neuralgia, leaf with tallow or oil, applied as compress.Leaf decoction used for fever, hemorrhage, wounds and ulcers.In Antilles, astringent fruit used for dysentery.In Konkan, fruit soaked in melted butter overnight, considered an excellent preventive for biliousness and febrile attacks.In West Indies, seeds considered aperient and diuretic the bark as tonic and febrifuge.Seed kernel oil used as skin ointment and as dressing for falling.Fruit soaked in melted butter overnight, is thought to be preventive.Fruit is soft and gritty with a sweet agreeable flavor.Seeds are aperient, diuretic, tonic, and antipyretic. Isolated compounds were lupeol acetate, oleanolic acid, apigenin-7-O-α-L-rhamnoside, myricetin-3-O-α-L-rhamnoside and caffeic acid. Leaves studied for lipoidal matters yielded fatty acids, of which unsaturated fatty acids represented 32.32% of total FA, oleic acid (13.95%), linoleidic acid (10.18%), and linoleic acid (5.96%) were the major ones. Phytochemical screening yielded terpenoids, glycosides, and flavonoid type compounds. (iron, copper, zinc, calcium and potassium). Source of sugars, proteins, vitamin C, phenolics, carotenoids and minerals Chemical composition analysis of sapota juice showed it to be a rich Fruit flesh yields saccharose 7%, dextrose 3.7%, and levulose 3.4%. Gum chicle contains 75% resin, gum (arabin) 10%, calcium oxalate, Bark contains sapotin, saponin, and tannin 11.8%. Seeds yield sapotin, saponin, achrassaponin, an alkaloid,įixed-oil 16-23%, the bitter principle, sapotinine 0.08%, etc. Introduced from tropical America in the early colonial period.Īlkaloid, sapotin 0.076%, fixed oil 1.45%, etc. Soft, slightly gritty, sweet, and very agreeable in flavor. Fruit is brown, fleshy, ovoid to round, 3 to 8Ĭentimeters long, containing 5 or more shiny blackish-brown seeds. Flowers are hairy outside,Ħ to 8 millimeters long and 6-parted. To 13 centimeters in length, pointed at both ends. Leaves are oblong to narrowly oblong-obovate, 8 VIETNAMESE: Hông xiêm, Hong xuan dinh, Xabôchê.Ĭhico is a much-branched tree growing to a SPANISH: Níspero, Sapote (Latin America), Zapote, Zapotillo. MALAY: Ciku, Sawo londo (Indonesia), Sawo manila (Indonesia). GERMAN: Breiapfel, Breiapfelbaum, Kaugummibaum, Sapote, Sapotille, Sapotillbaum. FRENCH: Nèfle d'Amérique, Sapote, Sapotier, Sapotillier.
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