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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Celastrus paniculatus 05.JPG
|image_caption = Fruits
|genus = Celastrus
|species = paniculatus
|authority = [[Carl Ludwig Willdenow|Willd.]]
|synonyms = ''Celastrus dependens'' <small>[[Wall.]]</small>
|}}
[[File:Celastrus paniculatus seeds.jpg|thumb|Seeds]]

'''''Celastrus paniculatus''''' is a [[Woody plant|woody]] [[liana]] commonly known as '''black oil plant''', '''climbing staff tree''', and '''intellect tree''' ([[Sanskrit]]: ''jyotishmati''<ref>{{cite web|date=2022-02-15|title=Intellect Plant Benefits And Uses: 4 Ayurvedic Benefits And Harm Of Jyotishmati|url=https://www.dailytramadol.com/intellect-plant-health-benefits/|access-date=2022-02-16|language=en-US}}</ref> ज्योतीष्मती, [[Hindi]]: ''[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35199395/ mal-kangni]'' माल-कांगनी, Chinese: ''deng you teng'' 灯油藤).<ref name="Premila2006">{{cite book |author=Premila, M. S. |title=Ayurvedic Herbs: A Clinical Guide to the Healing Plants of Traditional Indian Medicine |publisher=Haworth Press |location=New York |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7890-1768-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/ayurvedicherbscl0000prem }}</ref><ref name="Macmillan1989">{{cite book |author= H. F. Macmillan|title=Handbook of Tropical Plants |publisher=South Asia Books |location=Columbia, Mo |year=1989 |isbn=978-81-7041-177-2 }}</ref><ref name="Putz1991">{{cite book |author1=Putz, Francis E. |author2=Mooney, Harold A. |title=The Biology of vines |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-521-39250-1 }}</ref> This climbing shrub grows throughout [[India]] at elevations up to {{convert|1800|m|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Premila2006" /><ref name="zhang">[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200012787 Zhixiang Zhang, Michele Funston: Celastrus, in Flora of China, Vol. 11]</ref>

''C. paniculatus'' is a [[deciduous]] vine with stems up to {{convert|10|cm|abbr=on}} in diameter and {{convert|6|m|abbr=on}} long with rough, pale brown exfoliating bark covered densely with small, elongated [[Lenticel|lenticles]]. The leaves are simple, broad, and oval, obovate or elliptic in shape, with toothed margins.<ref name="Premila2006" /><ref name="Macmillan1989" />

==Traditional medicine ==
Oil from the seeds is used as a [[traditional medicine]] in [[India]]n [[Unani]] and [[Ayurvedic|Ayurvedic medicine]].<ref name="Premila2006" /><ref name="Chopra">{{cite book|title=Indigenous Drugs of india|publisher=Academic Publishers|isbn=978-81-85086-80-4|location=Kolkata|last1=Chopra|first1=R. N.|year=1994}}</ref>

==Poisonous relative==
''Celastrus paniculatus'' has a relative that grows in the United States that is poisonous (''[[Celastrus orbiculatus]]''), so identifying this plant carefully can be important.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite book |last=Caldecott |first=Todd |year=2006 |title=Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life |publisher=Elsevier/Mosby |isbn=978-0-7234-3410-8 }} Contains a detailed monograph on ''Celastrus paniculatus'' (Jyotishmati) as well as a discussion of health benefits and usage in clinical practice.
* {{cite journal | last1 = Bhanumathy | first1 = M. | last2 = Harish | first2 = M. S. | last3 = Shivaprasad | first3 = H. N. | last4 = Sushma | first4 = G. | title = Nootropic activity of Celastrus paniculatus seed. | journal = Pharmaceutical Biology | volume = 48| issue = 3| pages = 324–7| doi = 10.3109/13880200903127391 | pmid = 20645820 | date=Mar 2010| s2cid = 26602192 | doi-access = free }}
* Kanti Rekha, M K Bhan, S S Balyan and A K Dhar: [http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/8145/1/NPR%204%286%29%20482-486.pdf Cultivation prospects of endangered species Celastrus paniculatus Willd.]

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[[Category:Celastraceae]]

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