Steinmetz:Annona
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Annona reticulata
- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Annonaceae
- English Names
- True Custard Apple of America
- Sweetsop
- Bull's heart
- Bullock's heart
- Natural Habitat
- West Indies
- Naturalized in India
- Indonesia
- Part(s) Used
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- Constituent(s)
- seed
- bark: tannic acid; fruit: sugar; the root contains a deadly poison
- Action
- bark: astringent
- tonic; seed: astringent
- used in diarrhoea and dysentery
- vermifuge; kernel of seed: highly poisonous
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Annona squamosa
- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Annonaceae
- English Names
- Custard Apple
- Sugar Apple
- Sweet Sop of America
- Natural Habitat
- West Indies
- cultivated in Africa
- Orient
- America
- Part(s) Used
- Folia
- Semen (resins, oil, acrid principle)
- Fructu (sugars)
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- Action
- leaf
- seed: vermicide
- insecticide; bark: tonic
- astringent; root: violently purgative. The creamy sweet pulp of the apple is wholesome and delicious and is employed in cooling drinks in fevers and to flavour cold puddings
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