Ilavam Pisin / Silk Cotton Tree Gum (Raw) – 100 gm

Ilavam Pisin / Silk Cotton Tree Gum (Raw) – 100 gm

Botanical Name : Bombax ceiba
English Name : Silk Cotton Tree Gum
Tamil Name : Ilavam Pisin
Hindi Name : Semal / Shalmali
Malayalam Name : Unnamurika

Telugu Name : Buruga

About :
Silk cotton tree is a type of native cotton tree with large red flowers. It bears beautiful red-colored flowers during January to March. The phenomenon paints the whole landscape in an enchanting red hue. The fruit, the size of a ping-pong ball, on maturity appears during March and April. These are full of cotton-like fibrous stuff. Silk cotton tree is quite a fast growing tree and can attain a girth of 2 to 3 m, and height about 30 m, in nearly 50 years or so. Its wood, when sawn fresh, is white in color.Bombax species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the leaf-miner Bucculatrix crateracma which feeds exclusively on Bombax ceiba.

Benefits :
Internal Benefits of Ilavam Pisin (Silk Cotton Tree):-

Seminal disorders
Nocturnal emission, semen problems
Blood purification
Leucorrhoea
Over bleeding in menstruation
Improve breast milk
Cold and cough
Weakness

External Benefits of Ilavam Pisin (Silk Cotton Tree):-

Acne, skin blemish and pigmentation
Wounds