Product Description
It is a medium-sized tree reaching up to 15m high. Leaves are stalked, elliptic to ovate, and pointed. The flowers are yellowish. Fruits globose, green during young and turns black when ripe. It is distributed in western and central Nepal within an altitude of 1OOOm to 2500m, mostly along the river banks.
Extraction
Sugandhakokila oil is extracted by steam distillation of the dried berries of Cinnamomum glaucescens.
Uses
The oil has a wide range of medicinal properties and is used as an analgesic, astringent, carminative, digestive, and relaxant. Similarly, it is used in arthritis, joint and muscular pains, neuralgia, rheumatism, sprain, dyspepsia, colic, headache, insomnia, nervous tension, etc.