Guazuma ulmifolia

655.37.12 Guazuma ulmifoliaEnglish: bastard cedar, bay cedar, pigeon wood, West Indian elm
French: Bois de hêtre, Bois d'homme, Bois d'orme
Portuguese: bois d'orme, embira, fruta-de-macaco, mutamba, orme d'Amérique, pojó
Spanish: bacedar, cambá-acá, coco, contamal, cualote, guácima, Guácima cimaronna, Guácima de caballo, guácimo, guazuma, iumanasi, kamba aka guasa, majagua de toro, papayillo, tablote, tapaculo
Bengali: nipaltunth
Tamil: rudrasam, tenbachai, thenmaram, tubakki
Botany: tree; pastures and disturbed forests; Caribbean, South American, Central America and Mexico.
Use: carpentry, for posts, interior carpentry, light construction, boxes, crates, shoe horns, tool handles; charcoal; fodder, immature fruits and leaves.GeneralWeather: heat stroke.
Sweat: scanty.
Aversion: food, anorexia.BodyGeneral: cancer; obesity; depurative, antioxidant, anticholesterol.
Energy: weakness.
Infection: bacteria, staphylococcus, shigella, syphilis, gonorrhoea, leprosy; virus, influenza, herpes; malaria; parasites.
Fever: sepsis.
Nose: colds.
Throat: sore.
Lungs: bronchitis; asthma; pneumonia; cough.
Heart: hypertension; haemorrhages.
Stomach: indigestion; ulcers.
Abdomen: liver problems; diabetes.
Rectum: diarrhoea; dysentery; proctitis; haemorrhoids.
Urinary: nephrosis; urine scanty; oedema.
Male: prostatitis.
Female: uterus weak; childbirth.
Limbs: dislocation; elephantiasis.
Skin: dermatitis; rash; hair-loss, alopecia.