Bullet Wood
Family : Sapotaceae
Other Names : Kuun, Kaeo, Sang Dong, Phikuun Paa
General Features
A bullet wood is a perennial, high about 10-25 metres. Its leaves are simple leaves, arranging alternately, with an oval or elliptic shape, wide about 3-6 centimetres and long about 5-12 centimetres. Their edges are undulate. Its flowers are simple or lobe about 2-6 flowers, growing out of a nook of a leaf. Petals are cream and fragrant. Its fruits are freshy fruits, with an oval shape.
Properties and Medical Uses
According to the thai traditional medical textbook, a dried flower is ground as a powder and then mixed with a boiled water to drink for being cardiotonic and treatment for sore throat and muscular pain. A stem bark is boiled and then let dissolve in the mouth for relief of gingivitis. The wood, believed to be infected by fungi, with a dark brown color, white dots and fragrance (called 'flower log'), is used to be cardiotonic, liver and lung tonic and tonic for pregnant woman.