Uncaria gambir
Species of plant
| Uncaria gambir | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Genus: | Uncaria |
| Species: | U. gambir |
| Binomial name | |
| Uncaria gambir (W.Hunter) Roxb., 1824 | |
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Uncaria gambir, the gambier or gambir, is a species of plant in the genus Uncaria found in Southeast Asia, mainly Malaysia and Indonesia.
Extract
Gambier extract is used or has been used as a catechu for chewing with areca and betel, for tanning and dyeing, and as herbal medicine. Gambier extract was also used by native people as a medical treatment or prevention of diseases that were believed to be spread by the now obsolete medical theory of miasma.
The Indians invented paan, a gambir paste, that was believed to help prevent miasma; it was considered as the first antimiasmatic application. The gambir tree is found in Southern India and Sri Lanka.[2]
References
Data related to Uncaria gambir at Wikispecies
Media related to Uncaria gambir at Wikimedia Commons
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Sources of tannins
condensed tannins
- Areca catechu seed
- Broad bean
- Grape
- Vitis vinifera
- Mimosa bark
- Myrtan or black marlock
- Quebracho wood
hydrolysable tannins
- Chestnut wood
- Dhawa
- Myrobalan fruit
- Oak bark
- Oak wood
- Valonia oak
- Sumac
- Tanner's sumach leaves - Rhus coriaria or Chinese gall on Rhus chinensis
- Tara pod
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