Neem Therapy: Few More Relatives of Neem

As noted in the very beginning, apart from bakayan, there are quite a few other plants coming under the same family of neem viz Meliaceae that are of considerable medicinal importance. Inpopular language some of them also get a name of being a “variety” of neem; for instance, Chukrassia tabularis Juss is also called Hill-neem konda vepa in Telugu and the neem from Madagiri, madagiri bavu in Kannada. Of these, discussing rohitaka is of great interest from many points of view, as shown below, at the end.

Among these other relatives, Cedrela tooma Roxb (Indian mahogany or toona or nandivriksha in Sanskrit or tuna in Hindi). Chukrassia tabularis Juss and Switenia rnohogany L (the famous mahogany timber of Commerce) are mainly timber trees, though they also have some medicinal value.

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