Aegle marmelos (L.) Corrêa

Rutaceae

Common Names:
Beli (S)
Aluvigam, Vilram (T)
Bael fruit tree (E)
Bilva (Sa)

Traditional Knowledge

Useful plant parts :
Fruit, leaf and flower

Uses in traditional medicine :

  • Herbal tea prepared from dried flowers is taken for coughs and colds
  • One table spoon of crushed fresh leaf juice is taken thrice a day as a liver tonic
  • Fruit drink cools the body and purifies blood
  • Acts as a laxative and can be used as an eye lotion
  • Used in the treatment of dysentery, piles, dyspepsia, jaundice, scrofula, intermittent fever, hypochondria, melancholia, palpitation of the heart, diarrhoea, gastric troubles, anasarca, hepatitis and asthmatic complaints

Scientific Research

Chemical constituents:

Alkaloids: skimmianin, aegeline, terpenes: cineole, citral, citronellal, lupeol, phenolices: eugenol, coumarins: marmesin, umbelliferone, scopoletin and cuminaldehyde from leaves

Bioactivity :

Chloroform extract of roots: antidiarrhoeal; methanol extract of leaves and flowers: antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, analgeasic, radioprotective,  antipyretic; leaf powder: hepatoprotective; aqueous extract of fruits: hypoglycaemic, antiproliferative; scpoletin: inhibits thyroid function and hyperglycaemia without hepatotoxicity; umbelliferone and its galactopyranoside: antidiabetic, antihyperlipidaemic, antioxidative, couteracts obesity

 

Clinical:

Note :

Boiled unripe fruit and ripe fruit pulp are edible

References :

Arul, V. et al., (2005), Studies on the anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic properties of the leaves of Aegle marmelos Corr., Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 96, 159-163.

Jagetia, G. C. et al., (2004), Evaluation of the radioprotective effect of bael leaf (Aegle marmelos) extract in mice, International Journal of Radiation Biology, 80(4), 281-290.

Kamalakkannan, N. and Prince, P. S. M., (2003), Hypoglycaemic effect of water extracts of Aegle marmelos fruits in streptozotocin diabetic rats, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 87, 207-210.

Karmase, A. et al., (2013), Evaluation of anti-obesity effect of Aegle marmelos leaves, Phytomedicine, 20(10), 805-12.

Kumar, V. et al., (2013), Umbelliferone beta-D-galactopyranoside from Aegle marmelos (L.) corr. an ethnomedicinal plant with antidiabetic, antihyperlipidemic and antioxidative activity, BMC Complement Altern Med, 13(1), 273.

Lampronti, I. et al., (2003), In vitro antiproliferative effects on human tumor cell lines of extracts from the Bangladeshi medicinal plant Aegle marmelos Correa, Phytomedicine, 10(4), 300-308.

Maity, P. et al., (2009), Biological activities of crude extracts and chemical constituents of Bael, Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr., Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 47, 849-861.

Mazumder, R. et al., (2006), Antidiarrhoeal Evaluation of Aegle Marmelos (Correa) Linn. Root Extract, Phytotherapy Research, 20, 82-84.

Singanan, V. et al., (2007), The Hepatoprotective Effect of Bael Leaves (Aegle Marmelos) in Alcohol Induced Liver Injury in Albino Rats, International Journal of Science & Technology, 2(2), 83-92.

Panda, S. S. and Kar, A., (2006), Evaluation of the antithyroid, antioxida- tive and antihyperglycemic activity of scopoletin from Aegle marmelos leaves in hyperthyroid rats, Phytotherapy Research, 20(12), 1103-1105.

Suresh, K. and Karthikeyan, P. K. S. B., (2009), Antimicrobial activity of Aegle marmelos against clinical pathogens, Journal of Phytology, 1(5), 323-327.

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