Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.) A. DC.
Local Name: Fatik.
Synonyms: Ashshaora, datmajan, matmali, ban jamin, aidali.
Scientific Name: Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.) A. DC.
Family: Rutaceae.
Duration: Parennial.
Growth Habit: Shurb.
Taxonomic Hierarchy:
Kingdom | Plantae – Plants |
Subkingdom | Tracheobionta – Vascular plants |
Superdivision | Spermatophyta – Seed plants |
Division | Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants |
Class | Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons |
Subclass | Rosidae |
Order | Sapindales |
Family | Rutaceae – Rue family |
Genus | Glycosmis Correa – glycosmis |
Species | Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.) A. DC. |

Plant Descrition:
Shrubs, and trees with glandular punctate, commonly strongly smelling. Leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or palmately or pinnately compound. Flowers are often sweet-scented, nearly always bisexual, and are actinomorphic or sometimes zygomorphic. Fruit is variable. Common in marginal land.
Chemical constituents:
Air dried plant material yielded two furoquinoline bases, kokusaginine and skimmianine. Stems contain arborinine; other minor alkaloids also occur in this plant. Other alkaloids reported from the leaves include glycosine, arborine, glycosminine, arborinine (major), glycosamine, glycorine, glycosmicine and γ-fagarine.
Used Plant part:
Generally leaf, stem and fruits are used. But only leaves are used in fever.
Common use of the plant:
• Cough.
• Rheumatism,
• Anaemia.
• Jaundice.
• Ascaris.
• Fever.
• Liver complaints.
• Eczema.
• Skin affections.
• Fever.
Local Use of the study:
- Fever
Diagnosis of the disease:
Characterized by raise in body temperature.
Preparation:
Fatik leaves are collected from the plant. Then they are crushed to juice by mortal pastel .Then the filtered juice residue mixed up with sugar served in a prescribed manner.
Treatment:
Fatik leaves juice with sugar 3-4 tea spoons, 3-4 time daily, for one weak taken orally.