Guest guest Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 > Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:50:19 -0800 (PST) > r vidhyasagar <dr_vidhyasagar_54 > Indian marking nut andit's use > Ballathagi is serankottai.It is called Amirtha Ballathgi and how > Amirtha could be > injurious? my question wasn't about the toxicity of amrita bhallataka but the unprocessed fruit (i.e. just bhallataka), and if you had occassion to use it in an unprocessed form (i.e. without repeatedly decocting it in milk, straining out the fruit, and then decocting the milk to prepare a ghritam, as per the recipe in several Ayurvedic texts that are freely availble in English translation, e.g. the Chakradatta, Sharangadhara etc.) > but theIt is not toxic to kidney even it is a kidney medicine in > some renal disease. > This tree is Indian and not connected with the modern cashew nut which > you eat. are you saying that serankottai is not Semecarpus anacardium? perhaps not a cultivated cashew, but a wild variety? the crude herb i have obtained certainly looks too small to be of commercial use, but it definitely contains a cashew seed within Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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