they make chandan like paste and put on wounds

usha di

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:44 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you Ushadi. I am not sure if locals put the prickles to any use but
> will ask around. How does one use Semul prickles to heal wounds?
>
> Regards,
> Ashwini
>
> On 21-Mar-2016, at 3:34 PM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> wonderful write up
>
> do they have any special ethnic use for the thorns?
>
> (bengalis use the seemul trtee (Bombax ceiba)  thorns in wound healing )
>
> usha di
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Last Wednesday I drove down to the lower town of Dharamshala with a
>> friend to attend a local wedding feast. I stopped en route to photograph
>> apricot and semal blossoms (which I will share here in due course) when my
>> friend pointed me to a thorny shrub like tree. He said that it was called
>> *Tirmira* in the local dialect and its fruit was used in chutneys and
>> the wood in making pestles. Smaller twigs are also used as datun toothbrush
>> (like that of neem and keekar). Later I found out that a species belonging
>> to this genus gives the Szechuan Pepper. I am familiar with the Chinese
>> spice but am yet to taste the local variety. I will update when I lay my
>> hands on flower/fruit in season. It’s various culinary/medicinal uses are
>> listed here;
>>
>> http://www.stuartxchange.com/Chi-it.html
>>
>> Zanthoxylum armatum—Winged Prickly-Ash, Toothache Tree, *Tirmir, Tirmira*
>> 25 February, 2016
>> Dharamshala, HP, 1500m approximately
>>
>>
>> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Ashwini
>>
>> <_MG_0970_25Feb2016.jpg>
>> <_MG_0997_25Feb2016.jpg>
>>
>> Winged compound leaves;
>> <_MG_0971_25Feb2016.jpg>
>> <_MG_0993_25Feb2016.jpg>
>>
>> Empty dry pods;
>> <_MG_0974_25Feb2016.jpg>
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