Visakha: Champhar (Governor’s plum)

The fruits, leaves, bark and roots of chamfer have various uses. The leaves can be used treat asthma as a sedative agent. The bark possesses pain killer properties and is used in infantile fever and rheumatic pain. The gum obtained from bark is used to treat cholera. Fruit has astringent and diuretic properties (Sajeesha et al., 2018).