Fruit is a ripened ovary of the seed bearing plant. The main function of the fruit is dispersal or dissemination of the seeds. However the fruits are commercially valuable as human food. It is also widely used for preparation of various medicines. Few of the plants that are traditionally cultivated for their valuable fruits are:

Common Name: Jack Fruit

Uses: The young fruits of the Artocarpus Heterophyllus plant are acrid, astringent and carminative. While the ripe fruits are sweet, cooling, laxative and aphrodisiac.

Common Name:Kulikhara, Kokilaksah, Long Leaves Barleria

Uses: The fruits of the plant are useful in inflammations, hyperdipsia, strangury, jaundice and vesicle calculi. It is also used in flatulence and dysentery.

Common Name:Lilac, Margosa Tree, Neem, Neem Chal

Uses: The fruit of Azadirachta Indica is purgative, demulcent and is used in some forms of cutaneous affections. Azadirachta Indica Neem is an effective herbal remedy for lepra, eczema, and some other obstinate skin diseases.

Common Name:Beauty Berry

Uses: Fruits are sweet, astringent, acrid, anodyne, stomatitis, expectorant, depurative, anthelmintic, deodorant, digestive, styptic, febrifuge and good tonic. It is considered to be useful in rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, catarrh, anorexia, headache, foul ulcers, flatulence, colic diarrhea, skin diseases, burning sensation, excessive sweating, diabetes, vomiting, fever and general debility.

Common Name:Giant SwallowWort, Milkweed.

Uses: Calotropis Procera are useful in asthma, catarrh, anorexia, inflammations and tumours.

Common Name:Senna, Indian Senna, Tinnervelly Senna, Cassia Senna.

Uses: Widely used as expectorant, wound dresser, antidysentric, carminative and laxative. Useful in loss of appetite, hepatomegaly, spleenomegaly, indigestion, malaria, skin diseases, jaundice and anaemia.

Common Name:Fistula, Laburnum, Purging Fistula, Golden Shower, Amaltas.

Uses: Fruits are sweet, cooling, purgative, carminative, anti-inflammatory, diuretic and ophthalmic. It is used in flatulence, colic, dysentery, inflammations and intermittent fever. It is also also used for for conditions of cardiac disorders, strangury, opthalmopathy and general debility.

Common Name:Dwarf Morning glory, Shankhpushpi, Shankhahuli

Uses: The fruit of the plant has the rare property of having greatest therapeutic value when unripe. It is traditionally used for the treatment of diarrhea, non-specific colitis, malabsorption syndrome, gastritis, and adult onset diabetes (as ancillary therapy).

Gums are polysaccherides of natural origin. They can be easily dissolved or dispersed in water to give a thickening and gelling effect. Gums are widely used in food industry as thickening agents, gelling agents, emulsifiers and stabilizers.

Resin is usually yellow brownish secretion obtained from different parts of the plant. It mainly comprises of volatile tarpenes, along with essential oils and gums in little amount. The resins are insoluble in water and soluble in alcohol.

Common Name: Indian Olibanum Tree, Olibanum, Luban, Gond

Uses: Boswellia Serrata Gum resin obtained from the plant is antiseptic, expectorant, anti-inflammatory and diuretic in nature. It is helpful in the treatment of bronchitis, diarrhea, jaundice, ringworm and other skin diseases.

Common Name: Asafotida, Devil's Dung, Ingo, Food of The Gods

Uses: The gum resins obtained from the root is used in the treatment of hysteria, nervous disorders, bronchitis, asthma and whooping cough. It is antispasmodic, carminative, expectorant, laxative and sedative.

Common Name: Commiphora, Mukul, Guggul, Balsamodendrom Mukul, Indian Bdellium Tree, Moql, Moqle-arzagi.

Uses: The Guggul resin is known to increase white blood cell counts and possess strong disinfecting properties. It has been known to lower cholesterol and triglycerides, while maintaining or improving the HDL to LDL ratio. It is also helpful in providing protection against ailments such as common cold, and various skin, dental and ophthalmic infections.

Common Name: Chir Pine, Three Leaved Pine, Himalayan Long Leaved Pine.

Uses: The turpentine obtained from the resin of the tree is antiseptic, diuretic, rubefacient and vermifuge. It is useful in cough, cold, asthma, chronic bronchitis, inflammations, liver and spleen diseases, kidney and bladder infections, gonorrhea, scurvy, epilepsy, hemorrhoids and tuberculosis.