Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Picture
Chapter:
664.44.00
664.44.00 Sapotaceae
English: Sapodilla family; Gutta-percha family.
Botany: ± 65 genera; ± 800 species; trees and shrubs; pantropical.
Use: edible fruits, manilkara, star-apple, sapote, miracle fruit; cosmetics; medications; latex; edible oil.
Name: Zapote family; Nahuatl tzapotl.
Taxonomy
In the Apg3 classification Sapotaceae is a Family in the Ericales, closely related to Pentaphylacaceae.
Sapotaceae is an unknown family, although it is quite big with 55 genera. It has many fruit trees.
Introduction
Sapotaceae are not well known in homeopathy.
Body
Discharge: haemorrhages.
Fever: malaria.
Lungs: bronchitis; cough; expectoration bloody.
Heart: hypertension.
Stomach: dyspepsia; indigestion; burning; nausea.
Rectum: diarrhoea; haemorrhoids, bleeding.