Imli Plant - Tamarind Tree, इमली का पौधा - Medicinal Plants, Herb Plants,

Imli Plant - Tamarind Tree, इमली का पौधा

Imli plant, also known as Tamarind, is a valuable addition to any garden. This versatile plant is not only a source of the popular tamarind fruit but also possesses medicinal properties. It can be grown both indoors and outdoors, making it suitable for various environments. The tamarind fruit is widely used in cooking, and the plant itself is known for its health benefits.

Tamarind is a large, handsome, long living evergreen tree, which is widely cultivated for shade and fruit. In hot and dry localities it is briefly leafless. Because of its dense shade and broad spreading crown, it is mainly raised along field margin or at comers where four fields meet. This tree has got multiple uses and every part of it has got some specific usages. 

Tamarind tree is much loved and cherished throughout the semi-arid regions for its deep, cool shade and for its valuable pungent fruits. Less well known are its excellent leaf fodder and high quality timber. It can be grown on a wide range of soils including slightly saline or alkaline. It has a deep tap root  and drought hardy. It is one of the most extensively planted and highly valued tree in India and it is intimately associated with the common man. It is indigenous to tropical Africa and probably to South India. It is the commonest tree planted along the roadsides. Belonging to the family leguminoseae, it is known as Tamarindus indica botanically.

It is not essentially a forest tree but extensively cultivated throughout India, exclusing the Himalaya and arid zones. It is considered indigenous in tropical Africa. It thrives best on deep alluvium soils in warm climates and can tolerate drought but not frost. It is planted on roadsides for shade in the plains of northern India and sub-Himalayan tracts, particularly in the south. It is found scattered in dry deciduous forests, mostly in flat or undulating grounds or on gentle slopes from sea levels to about 1000 m.

Requirements:

A tree of tropical climate, hot dry summer with mild winter. Rainfall. In its natural range of distribution, the rainfall varies from 500-1000 mm, received during the monsoon season. Temperature: the maximum temperatures in its natural range of distribution touches above 40°C in Southern India, and the minimum in northern India drops to O°C. Soils: it is not exacting in soil requirements and can grow on a variety of soils ranging from gravely derived from granitic rocks 10 deep alluivium. It thrives best on deep loamy soils with adequate moisture supply. It tolerates water logging but grows well with only 350 mm annual rainfall if watered for establishment.

Tamarind (Imli) Plant Benefits: 

Tamarind pulp is also exported to Europe and America for preparing chutney and meat sauces. Under ordinary conditions, the pulp remains good for about a year provided it is kept in dry conditions. Due to high humidity it sweats. Pulp is also salted (10% salt) and trodden into mass made into balls for marketing. Local survey of the marketing of tamarind indicated that the traders make bulk purchases from Tamilnadu, Kamataka and Kerala. The buying rates during peak season varies from Rs 9 to 21 per kg depending upon the quality. The processed tamarind is stored in air conditioned room in order to retain the colour and thus preventing it from getting a black shade. The selling price varies from place to place and varies from Rs. 16 to Rs. 2S during peak season and 26 to Rs. 36 per kg during the off season.

Tamarind Leaves and Flower

• Tender leaves and flower which are eaten as a vegetable are cooling and antibilious. The leaf juice is given in bilious fever and scalding urine; their decoction is given to children as an anthelmintic (drug that kills intestinal worms). It is also useful in jaundice.
• A poultice of fresh leaves is locally applied over inflammatory swellings of ankles arid joints, sprains boils, sore eyes and scalries, a powder of the dried leaves is dusted over foul ulcers, wounds and sore eyes and is used as a gargle.

Tamarind Bark

• The bark is astringent, tonic and febrifuge (agent used for reducing fever). The ash obtained by heating the bark with salt in an earthern vessel is given for colic and indigestion. A mixture of this ash with water is a gargle for sore throat and a mouth wash for aphthous sores.

Tamarind Fruit Pulp

• The pulp of the fruit is antiscorbetic (drugs which prevents or cures scrurvy), digestive, carminative (drug which relieves flatullence), laxative, astringent, febrifuge, retringerant and antiseptic is given in habitual costiveness, alcoholic intoxication, dhatoora poisoning, bilious vomiting, febrile disorders and dysentery. In sunstroke, an infusion of the pulp, prepared by macerating it in water is particularly useful in loss of appetite and disinclination for food. The efficacy of the strained infusion is increased by adding to it black pepper, sugar, cloves, cardamoms, and camphor to taste, as a refrigerant in fevers and pulp is given with milk.
• A hot poultice of the pulp is applied over inflammatory swellings, a paste of the pulp made with salt is used as a liniment in rheumatism. Tamarind water is a mouth wash and gargle for stomatitis and sore throat.

Tamarind Seeds

• The seeds are astringent and discutient (drug which disperses or absorbs a tumor or any coagulated fruit in the body). The seed coat in doses of one grain with an equal quality of cumin and sugar is given in dysentery and diarrhoea two or three times a day. A poultice of the boiled seeds is applied over boils.

Product Information

• Plant Name- Imli Plant - Tamarind

• Plant Type- Indoor/Outdoor/Air Purifying Plant • Plant Grows upto- 12 to 18 m

• Plant Height we deliver- 10cm to 30cm

• Plant Placement- Indoor/Outdoor

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ALTERNATE NAME OF Imli Plant Botanical Name: Tamarindus indica   Hindi: Imli (इमली), Chinch (चिंच), Kannada: Hunase mara (ಹುಣಸೆ ಮರ), Tamil: Puli maram (புளி மரம்), Telugu: Chintachettu (చింత చెట్టు), Marathi: Chinch (चिंच), Malayalam: Puli maram (പുളി മരം), Bengali: Tetul gachh (তেঁতুল গাছ), Gujarati: Ambli (અંબલી), Punjabi: Imli (ਇਮਲੀ), Urdu: Imli (املی), Oriya: Tentuli (ତେନ୍ତୁଲି), Assamese: Tengesi (তেঁগেচি)  

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