Manipur’s heimang -A versatile ingredient in Asian cuisines and packs a nutritional punch

January 31, 2023

It grows widely in Manipur and other north-eastern regions.
Flowers of heimang tree are used as food and medicine.
They can be used for common Gastrointestinal ailments purposes and urinary ulcers.
Other parts of the heimang tree such as its leaves (including abnormal growths or galls on them), roots, stem, and bark are also found to have preventive and therapeutic effects.
Local communities in state use heimang leaves to prepare herbal shampoo called chinghi by boiling them with rice water.
Despite its extraordinary versatility, heimang has not yet found widespread commercial use.