1.  Classical categorization :- Uvayatobhag
har.(su.), uvayatobhag har.(v.)
 Latin Name:- Hydnocarpus laurofolia.
 Family Name:- Flacourtiaceae.- t'j/s s'n _
 Sanskrit Name:- Tuvrak, katukpitth,
kusthvairi, Garudaphala,
 Chaalmograa.etc.
 Nepali Name:-
 English Name:- Soorty Oil tree.

2.  An evergreen deciduous tree up to 15.2 mt. or
more in height, with fluted stem. Bark rough,
brown, wood whitish but generally turns
brownish-grey due to fungal sap-stain and
becomes streaked. Leaves oblong, ovate or
elliptic, some what serrate, 10.2-15.4 cm. long.
Flower small, solitary or borne in fascicles,
greenish-white. Fruit globose, mammilate,
tomentose, 5.1-10.2 cm. in diameter. Seeds 15-
20, striate, sub-ovoid, obtusely angular, 2-2.5
cm long.
 Flowering & fruiting during

6. Common in the tropical forests of western ghats
from konkan south wards. Also in lanka.
Major chemical constituents:-
Seeds & seed hulls contains hypnocarpic,
chaulmoogric and its homologues, gorlic, oleic
and palmitic acids; hydnocarpin & methoxy
hydnocarpin.etc.
The stem bark and leaves containt riterpenes,
acelylbetulinic, betulinic,ursolic and acetylursolic
acids.

7.  Guna: Tikshna, snigdha.
 Rasa: Katu, tikta.
 Vipak: Katu.
 Virya: Ushna.

8.  Effect on Doshas : - Kaph-vatt samak.
 Systemic:
 External: kusthghna, kandughna, jantughna,
vransodhan, vranropan, raktoklesak, lekhan.
 Internal:
 NS: bednasthapan.
 DS: vamak, rechak, krimighna.
 CS: Raktprasadan.
 RS: kaphaghna.
 US: pramehghna.
 Skin: kusthghna.

9.  It is used mainly in skin diseases, kustha, kandu, nadi
vran, gandmala, asthivran, aamvatt, raktvatt, raktbikar,
krimi rog,
 Used as a substitute for Centella asiatica, as a blood
purifier (in cutaneous diseases);
for indigestion, dysentery and nervousness.etc.
 Classical therapeutic uses:-
 Netra rog: Pulp of tuvrak fruit, rock salt & srotanjan are made
as coal by antar dhoom process first, then the tuvrak oil is
mixed with it & applied as eye ointment in pillarog,
naktandhya & timir rog.(su.ci.13)
 Rasayan: Tuvrak oil is used as rasayan in kustha
rogi.(AH.Ci.19)

10.  Dosage:- Seeds powder 3-6 gm.
Seeds oil 10 ml. for vaman &
birechan. 5-10 drop. for sansaman and can
be induced gradualy upto 30-60 drop.
Anupan should be as butter, ghee.
 Important preparation:- Tuvrakadi tail,
tuvrak tail, tuvrak lep, tuvrakaasthi vatak.